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Meet the Press Showdown w Tom Cotton plus DOJ Uncovers 260,000 Dead Voters · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 2: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
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  Speaker 3: Good Monday morning. It's nice to have you with us
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  Speaker 3: on the forty seven Morning Updated. We've got two major
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  Speaker 3: stories for you. First up, Tom Cotton coming out saying
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  Speaker 3: everyone on the drug boat was a valid target and
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  Speaker 3: the Washington Post slander are men and women in the military.
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  Speaker 3: He takes on the press and wins with the facts
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  Speaker 3: big time. I'll have that for you in just a moment. Also,
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  Speaker 3: in a story that no one's talking about, the federal
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  Speaker 3: government is now fighting hundreds of thousands of dead people
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  Speaker 3: on voter rolls around the country. Why are they still
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  Speaker 3: on the list, and why are Democrats doing everything they
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  Speaker 3: seven morning update. And it starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 3: It is a disaster. The media went all in on
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  Speaker 3: a story that we now know is a total lie.
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  Speaker 3: Senator Tom Cotton coming out on Meet the Press and
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  Speaker 3: saying that everyone on the drug boat was a valid target.
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  Speaker 3: The Washington Post now being accused of slandering the military
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  Speaker 3: now only reminds you about the backstory of this story.
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  Speaker 3: Two weeks before this story broke, you had Democrats in
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  Speaker 3: the House and the Senate come together and encourage an
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  Speaker 3: insurrection against the president from military leaders encourage a coup,
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  Speaker 3: telling them to defy orders of the president. Clearly in
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  Speaker 3: reference to the attacks on the narco terrorists running drugs
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  Speaker 3: to a America in the middle of the ocean. We
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  Speaker 3: know that the number one killer of people under the
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  Speaker 3: age of forty in this country is fetanyl and we
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  Speaker 3: know that hundreds of Americans are killed every single day
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  Speaker 3: by accidental overdoses from drugs laced with fetanel Well, on
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  Speaker 3: Sunday on Meet the Press, Tom Cotton of Arkansas said
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  Speaker 3: that all the people on a Venezuelan drug boat were
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  Speaker 3: subject to the Trump administration's cracked down the Caribbean were
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  Speaker 3: quote unquote valid targets. This going directly against the lies
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  Speaker 3: and the slander from the Washington Post on the military.
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  Speaker 3: I want you to listen carefully to what Tom Cotton
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  Speaker 3: had to say because it's important that this gets out,
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  Speaker 3: and I hope you will share this podcast this information
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  Speaker 3: with everyone on social media. Listen carefully.
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  Speaker 4: And joining me now is the chairman of the Senate
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  Speaker 4: Intelligence Committee who was in those briefings this week, Republican
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  Speaker 4: Tom Cotton of Arkansas, and welcome back to meet the press.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks for having me on Christin.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you so much for being here after a very
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  Speaker 4: big week. I want to ask you about our new reporting.
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  Speaker 4: NBC News is reporting this morning that Defense Secretary Pete
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  Speaker 4: hegseith his order was to kill all eleven individuals on
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  Speaker 4: that boat because they were on a list of narco
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  Speaker 4: terrorists who intelligence and military officials determined could be legally targeted.
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  Speaker 4: Was Secretary Hegxis's order to kill everyone on the boat
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  Speaker 4: because they were on this target list.
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  Speaker 5: Senator the ordered, like the entire Operation Kristen is to
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  Speaker 5: destroy these drug boats which are running drugs into our
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  Speaker 5: country from foreign drug cartels and traffickers that are killing
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  Speaker 5: hundreds of our cansons every year and hundreds of thousands
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  Speaker 5: of Americans. Now, of course, before our military conducts such
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  Speaker 5: a strike, they have multiple sources of intelligence. They give
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  Speaker 5: high confidence that everyone on that boat is a foreign
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  Speaker 5: drug trafficker, not an innocent civilian who's being human trafficked,
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  Speaker 5: for instance. And therefore Secretary Hegseth said, and I agree,
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  Speaker 5: they're all valid targets. Now, this controversy, let's remember, all
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  Speaker 5: started with the Washington Post story about nine days ago
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  Speaker 5: that said after the first strike there were two survivors
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  Speaker 5: that were helpless, and then they were ordered to kill
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  Speaker 5: these helpless survivors. That is simply not the case. They
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  Speaker 5: were not floating in the ocean on a wooden plane
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  Speaker 5: or in life jackets. They were on the capsized vessel.
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  Speaker 5: They were not incapacitated in any way. It was entirely
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  Speaker 5: appropriate to strike the boat again to make sure that
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  Speaker 5: it cargo was destroyed. It is in no way violation
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  Speaker 5: of the law of war. And I think the Washington Post,
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  Speaker 5: oh Secretary Heseth and especially Admiral Mitch Bradley, a highly
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  Speaker 5: decorated career Navy steal, an apology for that slander.
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  Speaker 3: An apology for that slander. This story is a story
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  Speaker 3: just like the Russian hoax story. That's still dossier, a
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  Speaker 3: total fabrication by the Democratic National Committee that paid for
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  Speaker 3: that dossier, and a fabrication by the Hillary Clinton for
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  Speaker 3: President campaign. And what did the media do. They gave
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  Speaker 3: legs and life to that story to the point where
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  Speaker 3: they impeached the president of the United States of America.
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  Speaker 3: This story is no different. There is a story that
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  Speaker 3: has been put out there by the Washington Post. I
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't be surprised if this story was put out there
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  Speaker 3: in conjunction with Democrats, the same Democrats that said defy
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  Speaker 3: the president's orders. It is obvious this was to undermine
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  Speaker 3: and to even imprison people in and around President Trump.
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  Speaker 3: It was also a story that has been put out
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  Speaker 3: there to put fear into the minds of our men
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  Speaker 3: and women in uniform, with the threat that the Democratic Party,
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  Speaker 3: when they gained power again one day, will come after
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  Speaker 3: them for war crimes and lock them up for life
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  Speaker 3: or even give them the death penalty. That that is
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  Speaker 3: exactly what this story was all about, to make sure
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  Speaker 3: that people that are in our government would not follow
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  Speaker 3: the orders of the sitting president. Senator Tom Cotton after
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  Speaker 3: what he had to say there was pressed by Welker,
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  Speaker 3: and I want you to listen carefully to what he
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  Speaker 3: says in this next moment on the show.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, and we're going to get to what you saw
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  Speaker 4: in the video momentarily. But I just want to be
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  Speaker 4: very clear, because what you're saying is significant. Senator, it
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  Speaker 4: sounds like you're confirming. Did Admiral Bradley brief lawmakers that
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  Speaker 4: in fact, all of the people on that boat were
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  Speaker 4: on a military target list.
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  Speaker 5: I did not hear him personally say anything about a
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  Speaker 5: military target list. Now, he had several briefingsunt the day.
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  Speaker 5: I wasn't in the briefing, for instance, with Mark Warner,
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  Speaker 5: my counterpart on the Senate Intelligence Committee. I can only
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  Speaker 5: say what he told me. He said they had high confidence,
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  Speaker 5: based on multiple sources of intelligence, that everyone on that
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  Speaker 5: boat was part of a foreign or foreign terrorist organization
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  Speaker 5: and been designated by the US government.
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  Speaker 4: So they could be legally targeted. They could be essentially
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  Speaker 4: and legally targeted. We argued, yes, okay.
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  Speaker 5: Both before the first strike and after the first strike.
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  Speaker 4: Was Admiral Bradley acting on Secretary Hexas orders.
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  Speaker 5: Senator Well anytime you have an operation like this, there's
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  Speaker 5: an operation order, it's written down, it's got very detailed instructions.
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  Speaker 5: I think because this was the first strike, Secretary Hegseth
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  Speaker 5: and Admiral Bradley both wanted to be present and be
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  Speaker 5: making the decision. As you heard Secretary Hegseth in the
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  Speaker 5: opening say he initiated the first strike. You've seen the video.
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  Speaker 5: There's a lot of smoke. It takes a long time
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  Speaker 5: to clear. I'm sure Secretary Hesath had many other matters
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  Speaker 5: that he had to attend to, and he trust Admiral Bradley.
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  Speaker 5: Once the smoke is clear, once cloud covered cleared, it
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  Speaker 5: was clear that the first strike had not destroyed the
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  Speaker 5: boat or Admiral Bradley made a decision for the second strike.
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  Speaker 5: Now in subsequent strike since then, because there's been more
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  Speaker 5: than twenty obviously it's no longer a Secretary Hegseth or
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  Speaker 5: even four star generals making that decision, nor should it be.
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  Speaker 5: But on the first strike, I believe they both wanted
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  Speaker 5: to be present and be observing it.
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  Speaker 4: Let me ask you about the aftermath of that first strike.
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  Speaker 4: The Tigan's Law of War Manual, which you're familiar with
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  Speaker 4: having served in RockA and Afghanistan, says quote orders to
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  Speaker 4: fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal.
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  Speaker 3: I want to pause there, and I want you to
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  Speaker 3: just listen to how they continue to undermine and disparage
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  Speaker 3: and fish for a controversy. Did you notice how she's like,
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  Speaker 3: let me just go to these orders. Let's talk about
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  Speaker 3: these orders. Let's have a conversation about these orders. They
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  Speaker 3: do not want to stop here. They want this to
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  Speaker 3: continue to be a thing. They want it to continue
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  Speaker 3: to be a story. And they are refusing to admit
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  Speaker 3: that the story is inaccurate, that the story is slander,
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  Speaker 3: that the story is a lie. Why because they want
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  Speaker 3: people that were for the president of the United States
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  Speaker 3: of America to be afraid to do their job, to
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  Speaker 3: be afraid to follow orders from the president of the
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  Speaker 3: United States of America. And this is why it is
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  Speaker 3: so important that we stand with this president and that
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  Speaker 3: conservatives in Congress stand up to these radicals on the left.
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  Speaker 3: Full stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Now, story number two.
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  Speaker 3: I want to bring up a quick important story for you,
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  Speaker 3: and it's one that's getting no coverage at all. It
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  Speaker 3: deals with the integrity of our elections and it's a
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  Speaker 3: very important story. After the Assistant Attorney General Harmei Dylon,
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  Speaker 3: who leads the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, announce new
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  Speaker 3: findings in the Department's nationwide effort to clean up voter rolls,
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  Speaker 3: revealing massive vulnerabilities in states election systems. Vording to Dylan,
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  Speaker 3: federal investigators have identified two hundred and sixty plus thousand
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  Speaker 3: dead individuals still listed on voter rolls across the country,
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  Speaker 3: more than a quarter million dead people along with thousands
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to say this slowly because I want this
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  Speaker 3: to really stick with you, along with thousands of registered
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  Speaker 3: non citizens. Let me translate that for you. They've found
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  Speaker 3: thousands of illegal immigrants registered to vote. In a post
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  Speaker 3: on acts, she said, the Department's review has already prompted
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  Speaker 3: major action. Fourteen states have now been sued for failing
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  Speaker 3: to comply with federal transparency requirements, while four others have
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  Speaker 3: voluntarily turned over voter data and begun the cleanup efforts.
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  Speaker 3: Many of these states, by the way, knew this was
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  Speaker 3: a problem before the government got involved for the transparency.
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  Speaker 3: One of the most serious problems, they said, is in
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  Speaker 3: a swing state, North Carolina, where officials are now removing
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  Speaker 3: more than one hundred thousand outdated or invalid voter registrations.
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  Speaker 3: Dylon emphasized the stakes of the cleanup effort, saying even
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  Speaker 3: a single and proper vote in reminds the core promise
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  Speaker 3: of American democracy. Quote everyone, every one person voting who
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  Speaker 3: shouldn't have voted is one too many, because every citizen
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  Speaker 3: is entitled to one person, one vote, the assumption that
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  Speaker 3: their vote is being counted equally and only with another
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  Speaker 3: American citizen. We will not rest at the DOJ until
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  Speaker 3: we complete this project and provide confidence to all American
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  Speaker 3: voters that the roles are clean and the elections are
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  Speaker 3: free and fair. The Department on Tuesday escalated its campaign
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  Speaker 3: by filing lawsuits against six additional states Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico,
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  Speaker 3: Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington for what is described as
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  Speaker 3: their failure as a state to provide statewide voter registration
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  Speaker 3: lists and other data required under federal law. Let me
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  Speaker 3: say that again, under federal law. Justice Department officials say
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  Speaker 3: the information is critical to assess compliance with election security statutes.
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  Speaker 3: But Democrats state officials are pushing back, Why, Well, I
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  Speaker 3: think it's pretty clear you can say they're probably pushing
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  Speaker 3: back for one main reason because they feel like this
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  Speaker 3: is an advantage for them. Democrats say that they're warning
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  Speaker 3: about how the voter data could be used, and they're
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  Speaker 3: raising questions about the Department's handling and privacy protections, that
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  Speaker 3: of course being dismissed by those in charge, saying that
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  Speaker 3: the transparency and accuracy are essential to public trust and
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  Speaker 3: that the Department's efforts are aimed soleet ensuring the integrity
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  Speaker 3: of future elections, saying, quote, our elections are crooked and rigged.
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  Speaker 3: The voters know it. That's how President Trump put it
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  Speaker 3: on Wednesday after this data was revealed. Must bring integrity
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  Speaker 3: back to voting, and it starts, the President says, in
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  Speaker 3: all caps, with voter ID. And I couldn't agree with
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  Speaker 3: him more. Now, if you go back to what the
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  Speaker 3: President said in his tweet, this echoes what he's been
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  Speaker 3: saying for a long time. We have a problem in
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  Speaker 3: this country with the ability to cheat and the ability
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  Speaker 3: for someone who is not actually who they say they
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  Speaker 3: are to vote in an election. It is simple and
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  Speaker 3: it's easy to fix this problem. Voter ID laws are
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  Speaker 3: a great step in the right in that direction, Like
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  Speaker 3: a phenomenal step in that direction. The problem is you
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  Speaker 3: have Democrats who say no, we refuse, we will not
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  Speaker 3: do this. We are saying no to it, and that's
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  Speaker 3: the biggest problem of all. It is incredibly frustrating when
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  Speaker 3: you witness this. It's incredibly frustrating to watch a government
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  Speaker 3: that is trying to give us transparency and Democrats get
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  Speaker 3: in the way. Why would they not want Why would
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  Speaker 3: Democrats not want to clean up the voter rolls? Is
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  Speaker 3: it because they know the majority of cheating that's done
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  Speaker 3: is done by Democrats and not Republicans and it gives
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  Speaker 3: them a big advantage. That's a question that everybody should ask.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's an incredibly important question to ask, and
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  Speaker 3: I hope all of you will start asking that question,
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  Speaker 3: most importantly to our men and women who serve this
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  Speaker 3: country in Congress.
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