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Woke Watchdog Exposed — SPLC Accused of Funding the Hate It Claims to Fight · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: The MBI director Cash Pttel is now really explaining how
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  Speaker 1: corrupt the Southern Poverty Law Center actually is. We also
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  Speaker 1: know now that the Southern Property Law Center had a
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  Speaker 1: hit list of conservatives and gave locations of where the
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  Speaker 1: top conservatives they hated lived. The FBI director going on
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  Speaker 1: Sean Hannity's show saying this about who they really are
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  Speaker 1: and following the money.
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  Speaker 2: Money doesn't lie. The charity that supposedly fought the clan
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  Speaker 2: funded the clan. The charity that supposedly fought Nazis funded
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  Speaker 2: Neo Nazis. The Southern Poverty Law Center ran a methodical,
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  Speaker 2: calculated scheme to defraud their donor base of three million
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  Speaker 2: dollars and lied to them and used an illicit banking
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  Speaker 2: structure system to create shell companies to hide their money
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  Speaker 2: and who it was being sent to, specifically for the
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  Speaker 2: reason to sow discord and hate into our society. This
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  Speaker 2: is the ultimate definition of hypocrisy, and if you look
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  Speaker 2: at the indictment produced by the Department of Justice and
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  Speaker 2: the FBI, you will see that these banking institutions tied
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  Speaker 2: directly the funding mechanisms in which the Southern Poverty Law
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  Speaker 2: Center used to fund at least eight hate groups they
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  Speaker 2: supposedly wanted to take out, but they were paying the
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  Speaker 2: very villains of our society they supposedly wanted to protect
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  Speaker 2: us from. That's the ultimate hypocrisy.
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  Speaker 1: You'll listen to Cashpittel, and he's absolutely right these people.
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  Speaker 1: This charity that was supposedly supposed to be fighting Neo
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  Speaker 1: Nazis was funding the Neo Nazis. The charity that was
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  Speaker 1: supposed to fight the Klulux Klan was actually funding the
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  Speaker 1: klu Klux Klan. That obviously is a massive problem, and
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  Speaker 1: that is exactly why the indictments have come down. Breitbart
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  Speaker 1: is also reporting this that the left is Southern Poverty
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  Speaker 1: Law Center's former head, Margaret Haig, weaponized the group against conservatives. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's now coming as well from the New York Posts. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this report comes after the DOJ on Tuesday charged the
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  Speaker 1: organization with not only fraud but also money laundering and
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  Speaker 1: it linked them to violent extremist groups. Now, the Southern
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  Speaker 1: Property Lawsonner's former boss took over in twenty twenty, after
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  Speaker 1: which the organization took on a more partisan tone. Is
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  Speaker 1: how the Posts described it, saying this and a piece
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  Speaker 1: published last year, hun claimed that hard right extremist groups
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  Speaker 1: have steadily penetrated American life, politics, and government since President
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  Speaker 1: Trump's twenty sixteen election, arguing his second White House run
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  Speaker 1: gave them an ally in the highest office in the nation.
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  Speaker 1: What was once considered a fringe agenda in the modern
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  Speaker 1: air is the blueprint from which the country's president and
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  Speaker 1: the MAGA movement is operating. She blasted an article for
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  Speaker 1: The Daily Costs warning that the hard right that would
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  Speaker 1: be is muscling its way into schools and libraries that,
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  Speaker 1: of course, the left have already taken over. The Southern
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  Speaker 1: Poverty Law Center targeted conservative groups known as Turning Point USA,
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  Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk's group that he founded in twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: we now have learned by putting it on a hate
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  Speaker 1: map with KKK chapters. Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk,
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  Speaker 1: who was brutally assassinated at that Utah speaking engagement in
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  Speaker 1: September of twenty twenty five, reacted to the move in
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  Speaker 1: a social media post, calling it a cheap smear from
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  Speaker 1: a washed up organization that's been fleecing scared grandmas for
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  Speaker 1: decades now. The indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center also
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  Speaker 1: comes after Kirk for many years set its hate group
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  Speaker 1: designation targeted Conservatives as well as Christians, pernal rights activists,
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  Speaker 1: and his organization. Now we know from all of the
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  Speaker 1: indictment that that is exactly true. During December twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Turning Point executive
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  Speaker 1: vice president stay that Kirk had worn three months before
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  Speaker 1: his assassination that the Southern Poverty Law Centers designation of
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  Speaker 1: Turning Point USA on its hate map would place the
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  Speaker 1: organization in the crosshairs.
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  Speaker 3: They also told lawmakers.
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  Speaker 1: That the warning proved prophetic after Kirk was assassinated at
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  Speaker 1: Utah Valley University in September of the same year. In
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  Speaker 1: announcing this indictment on Tuesday, the FBI director said the
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  Speaker 1: charges against the organization included major crimes, wire fraud, false
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  Speaker 1: statements to federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment
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  Speaker 1: of money laundering. The Southern Property Law Center allegedly engaged
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  Speaker 1: at a massive fraud operation to deceive their donors. They
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  Speaker 1: also enriched themselves and hit their deceptive operation from the public.
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  Speaker 3: They also lied to.
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  Speaker 1: Their donors, vowing to dismantle violent extremist groups, when in
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  Speaker 1: actually what they were doing was turning around to pay
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  Speaker 1: the leaders of those very extremist groups, even utilizing the
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  Speaker 1: funds to have these groups facilitate the commission of state
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  Speaker 1: and federal crimes. That is illegal, and this is an
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  Speaker 1: ongoing investigation against all individuals, is.
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  Speaker 3: What the FBI said.
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  Speaker 1: What's also interesting is how much money these leaders were making.
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  Speaker 1: The Post of the Time noted that the woman in
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  Speaker 1: charge was compensated more than a half a million dollars
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three alone, adding she was removed in
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  Speaker 1: July after huge layoffs and is now a senior advisor
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  Speaker 1: at the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. Still
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  Speaker 1: in the game, still slandering conservatives and putting them on
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  Speaker 1: hit lists now. It's also been exposed as well that
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  Speaker 1: this organization, the Southern Poverty Law Center, paid an informant
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  Speaker 1: at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville and didn't
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  Speaker 1: just tip the Southern Propaty Law Center off. The Southern
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  Speaker 1: Popty Law Center supervised his racist postings and helped coordinate
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  Speaker 1: transportation boosting the white nationalists side. The Southern Privaty Law
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  Speaker 1: Center paid him two hundred and seventy thousand dollars between
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  Speaker 1: twenty fifteen and twenty twenty three, showing that this was
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  Speaker 1: a long term business plan. The F thirty seven was
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  Speaker 1: a member of the online leadership chat group that planned
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  Speaker 1: the twenty seventeen Unite the Right event in Charlottesville, Virginia,
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  Speaker 1: and attend the event at the direction of the Southern
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  Speaker 1: Poverty Law Center. Not to be clear, this is an
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  Speaker 1: individual that the Southern Poverty Law Center says they're fighting against,
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  Speaker 1: and they were actually organizing his travel. The F thirty
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  Speaker 1: seven and the indictment made racist postings under the supervision
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  Speaker 1: of the Southern Poverty Law Center and helped coordinate transportation
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  Speaker 1: of the event for several attendees, as well, paying him
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  Speaker 1: more than two hundred and seventy thousand dollars. Tyler O'Neal
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  Speaker 1: tweeted this, The Southern Papaty Lawsoner paid a neo Nazi
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  Speaker 1: leader more than one million dollars between twenty fourteen and
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. This story is familiar to me because
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  Speaker 1: it involves the case of Glenn Keith Allen. Because the
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  Speaker 1: Southern papy Lawsoner used the stolen documents to.
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  Speaker 3: Literally destroy his reputation.
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  Speaker 1: Tyler O'Neil went on to say, not only did they
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  Speaker 1: pay the Imperial Wizard of the United Clans of America
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  Speaker 1: a rebirth of a group the Southern Propaty Lawsner sued
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  Speaker 1: into bankruptcy in the Michael Donald case, but they actually
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  Speaker 1: just said no, no, no, we'll rebirth it and make
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  Speaker 1: them have even more money. Yes, an American Nazi received
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  Speaker 1: three hundred thousand dollars from the Southern Poverty Law Group
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  Speaker 1: from twenty fourteen to twenty twenty seven. This is all
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  Speaker 1: what happens when you follow the money, and what we're
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  Speaker 1: witnessing right now is one of the Democrats' most important
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  Speaker 1: organizations that they use in this country to divide the nation. Well,
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  Speaker 1: in fact, what they were really doing is they were
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  Speaker 1: going after conservatives and paying the extremists they claimed they
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  Speaker 1: were actually trying to get rid of. I want you
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  Speaker 1: no real options, no doctors in their community, and no
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  Speaker 1: money for real medical care. By the third day, her
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  Speaker 1: body was shutting down. She woke up and just long
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  Speaker 1: enough to tell her mom, I can't take the pain anymore.
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  Speaker 1: I can't keep going. Her parents drove hours to find
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  Speaker 1: The Department of Justice has now announced that the far
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  Speaker 1: left Southern Poverty Law Center was charged with fraud and
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  Speaker 1: money laundering involving violent extremists groups quote unquote. In a
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  Speaker 1: press release from the Office of Public Affairs for the DOJ,
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  Speaker 1: it was revealed that the Southern Poverty Law Center was
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  Speaker 1: charged by an Alabama grand jury with eleven counts of
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  Speaker 1: wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and
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  Speaker 1: conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering. According to the press release,
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  Speaker 1: an indictment says that starting in the nineteen eighties, the
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  Speaker 1: Southern Poverty Law Center began operating a covert network of
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  Speaker 1: individuals who were either associated with violent and extremist groups
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  Speaker 1: such as the klu Klux Klan. To be clear, the
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  Speaker 1: indictment is saying that the Southern Poverty Law Center was
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  Speaker 1: associated with violent and extremist groups, including the klu Klux Klan.
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  Speaker 1: This is incredible now, According to the indictment, starting in
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  Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties, the Southern Property Law Center began operating
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  Speaker 1: a covert network of individuals who were either associated with
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  Speaker 1: violent and extremist groups such as the Kluklux Klan, or
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  Speaker 1: who had infiltrated violent extremist groups at the Southern Poverty
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  Speaker 1: Law Center's direction. Now, unbeknownst to the donors, some of
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  Speaker 1: their donated money was being used to fund the leaders
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  Speaker 1: and organizers of racist groups. At the same time that
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  Speaker 1: the Southern Poverty Law Center was denouncing the same groups
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  Speaker 1: on its own website.
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  Speaker 3: That's just stealing money. Folks.
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  Speaker 1: If you're giving money the Kluklux Klan while claiming you're
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  Speaker 1: fighting the klu Klux.
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  Speaker 3: Klan, that's a massive fraud. Now.
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  Speaker 1: The Southern Poverty Law Center also allegedly funneled more than
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  Speaker 1: three million donated funds to individuals who were associated with
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  Speaker 1: groups such as the National Socialist Movement, the United Clans
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  Speaker 1: of America, and the Aryan Nations affiliated Sadistic Soul's Motorcycle Club,
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  Speaker 1: all of this between twenty fourteen and twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: according to the press release. Now, the Acting Attorney General
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  Speaker 1: Todd Blanche said in a statement that the Southern Poverty
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  Speaker 1: Law Center is manufacturing racism to justify its existence as
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  Speaker 1: an organization, then saying this quote, using donor money to
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  Speaker 1: allegedly profit off clansmen cannot go unchecked. In a post
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  Speaker 1: on Acts, the Federal Bureau of Investigations Director Caspittel shared
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  Speaker 1: that he and Blanche were announcing an eleven count indictment
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  Speaker 1: against the Southern Poverty Law Center this evening. Blanche and
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  Speaker 1: I are announcing it against the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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  Speaker 3: Charges include wire fraud.
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  Speaker 1: False statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to
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  Speaker 1: commit concealment money laundering. The FBI director continued in a
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  Speaker 1: statement on x saying the Southern Poverty Law Center allegedly
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  Speaker 1: engaged in a massive fraud operation to deceive their donors,
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  Speaker 1: enrich themselves, and hide their deceptive operations from the public.
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  Speaker 1: They lied to their donors vowing to dismantle violent extremist
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  Speaker 1: groups and actually turned around and paid the leaders of
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  Speaker 1: these very extremist groups, even utilizing the funds to have
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  Speaker 1: these groups facilitate the commission of state and federal crimes.
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  Speaker 1: That is illegal, and this is an ongoing investigation against
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  Speaker 1: all individuals involved. Now, Casperttel, after putting that out, also
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  Speaker 1: how to press conference in the Department of Justice.
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  Speaker 3: And here is what he had to say, or.
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  Speaker 2: Here today is to announce what the General just told you.
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  Speaker 2: The Southern Property Law Center, in a massive sweeping indictment,
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  Speaker 2: has been charged with allegations of fraud and using the
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  Speaker 2: banking system to perpetrate that fraud. I just want to
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  Speaker 2: talk about a couple of brief things here. The Southern
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  Speaker 2: Property Law Center themselves advertise to raise money to dismantle
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  Speaker 2: violent extremist groups for a period of at least a decade.
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  Speaker 4: They use their.
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  Speaker 2: Donor network to raise money to purportedly dismantle violent extremist groups. However,
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  Speaker 2: the SPLC the Southern Property Law Center used the money
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  Speaker 2: they raise raised from their donor network to actually pay
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  Speaker 2: the leadership of these very groups. I just want to
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  Speaker 2: say that again, they use the fraudulently raised money by
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  Speaker 2: lying to their donor network thousands of Americans to go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and actually pay the leadership of these supposed violent
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  Speaker 2: extremist groups. The groups, as the General laid out, include
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  Speaker 2: the Ku Klux Klan, the United Clans of America, Unite
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  Speaker 2: to Right, National Alliance, the National Socialist Movement, the Arian
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  Speaker 2: Nation Motorcycle Club, and the National Socialist Party of America,
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  Speaker 2: and also the American Front. In at least one of
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  Speaker 2: these matters, our investigation revealed that funds were used to
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  Speaker 2: facilitate the commission of further state and federal offenses, totaling
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  Speaker 2: over three million dollars. Furthermore, our investigation revealed that the
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  Speaker 2: Southern Poverty Law Center, on top of perpetuating this widespread,
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  Speaker 2: decade long, multi million dollar fraud, conducted more criminal activity.
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  Speaker 2: They attempted to hide their criminal activity from our financial
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  Speaker 2: banking network. They set up shell companies and entities around
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  Speaker 2: America so that the financial institutions that we rely on
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  Speaker 2: as everyday Americans were deceived in believing that money was
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  Speaker 2: not coming from the Southern Poverty Law Center in the
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  Speaker 2: perpetration of this scheme and fraud, but rather fictitious entities
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  Speaker 2: they stood up to perpetuate this ongoing fraud. This is
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  Speaker 2: a serious and egregious violation of a group that purported
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  Speaker 2: to dismantle violent extremists groups, but in turn actually only
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  Speaker 2: fueled the hatred. This is an important case brought by
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  Speaker 2: the President. By President Trump's administration, We're thankful for the
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  Speaker 2: present for his leadership and funding of not just the
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  Speaker 2: FBI and DOJ, but his commitment to go out there
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  Speaker 2: and wipe out fraud and conspiracy and waste and abuse
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  Speaker 2: wherever it occurs, including the Southern Poverty Law Center. Even
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  Speaker 2: though this money was made to appear to be coming
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  Speaker 2: from legitimate people and legitimate entities, we at the FBI,
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  Speaker 2: with our great partners at the Department of Justice and
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  Speaker 2: in the State of Alabama, were able to comb through
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  Speaker 2: a decade worth of material, a scheme that took a
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  Speaker 2: decade to build so that we were able to follow
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  Speaker 2: the money because money never lies, and they got caught.
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  Speaker 2: As the Attorney General said, these charges are varying, they
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  Speaker 2: are widespread and wide ranging, and this investigation is very
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  Speaker 2: much ongoing. Today we're here to announce the charges of
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  Speaker 2: the Southern Poverty Law Center and this investigation and the
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  Speaker 2: individuals were responsible will be brought to justice.
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  Speaker 1: The most shocking thing about what Caspittel said there is
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  Speaker 1: not only did they secretly funnel three million in donor
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  Speaker 1: funds to violent racist extremist groups including literally the klu
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  Speaker 1: Klux Klan, the American Nazi Party, the Area Nation, the
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  Speaker 1: United Clans of America, Unite, the Right, National Alliance, National
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  Speaker 1: Socialist Movement, Sadistic Souls, Motorcycle Club, and America Front, just
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  Speaker 1: to name a few. But they knew what they were doing.
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  Speaker 1: And how do you know that? Because to hide the payments,
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  Speaker 1: the Southern Poverty Law Center allegedly open bank accounts under
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  Speaker 1: fictitious entities, as it was described there in the press conference.
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  Speaker 1: Why would you do that? One reason? You want to
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  Speaker 1: conceal the source and control of the donor funds and
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  Speaker 1: that's what they did, and per the indictment, the Southern
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  Speaker 1: Poverty Law Center Field source was a member of the
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  Speaker 1: online leadership chat group that planned the twenty seventeen Unite
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  Speaker 1: the Right rally in Charlottesville. They made racist postings under
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  Speaker 1: Southern Poverty Law Center supervision and helped coordinate transportation to
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  Speaker 1: that event. The FBI director saying, not only do they
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  Speaker 1: lie their donors vowing to dismantle violent extremist groups, and
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  Speaker 1: actually turned around and paid the leaders of these very
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  Speaker 1: extremist groups, even utilizing the funds to have these groups
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  Speaker 1: facilitate the Commission of State and Federal Crimes Todd Blanche
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  Speaker 1: in the indictment, he had this to say at the
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  Speaker 1: Department of Justice.
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  Speaker 5: Now, as the indictment lays out, after SBLC paid members
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  Speaker 5: of these extremist groups, it created work product that reported
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  Speaker 5: on these activities that the members participated in or contributed to.
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  Speaker 5: And to that end, it was doing the exact opposite
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  Speaker 5: of what it's told its donors. It was doing not
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  Speaker 5: dismantling extremism, but funding it. To carry out this scheme,
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  Speaker 5: SPLC created bank accounts in the name of at least
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  Speaker 5: five completely fictitious organizations that had no bona fide employees
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  Speaker 5: or legitimate business purpose. The money was passed from SPLC
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  Speaker 5: to one sham account, to a second sham account, and
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  Speaker 5: then loaded onto prepaid cards to give to the members
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  Speaker 5: of the extremist groups. This was designed to shield the
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  Speaker 5: source of those funds and because of this, SPLC is
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  Speaker 5: also charged with one count as I said earlier, of
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  Speaker 5: RC to commit money laundering. In conclusion, I want to
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  Speaker 5: thank the Acting US Attorney in the Middle disc of Alabama,
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  Speaker 5: Kevin Davidson, who's in his district right now and not
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  Speaker 5: able to be with us, for bringing this important case,
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  Speaker 5: along with the FBI team in Alabama, for their hard
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  Speaker 5: work during this investigation. This investigation is ongoing.
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  Speaker 1: This is truly a bombshell. It'll be very interesting to
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  Speaker 1: see what else comes out in this ongoing investigation. But
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  Speaker 1: one thing that is for sure, the people that are
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  Speaker 1: doing things like this, you're on notice because the Trump
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  Speaker 1: administration and the men and women in charge of the
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  Speaker 1: DOJ and the FBI, they're doing their job rooting out
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  Speaker 1: this type of corruption. All right, senat So let's get
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  Speaker 1: into the Southern Poverty Laws Center.
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  Speaker 3: It was let's just be clear.
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  Speaker 1: A group that was supposed to stop the klu Klux Klan,
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  Speaker 1: but instead we decided to fund the klu Klux Klan.
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  Speaker 1: That was just one of the many like bigoted racist
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  Speaker 1: groups that they decided to actually raise money from people
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  Speaker 1: claiming we're trying to stop hate while actually funding the hate,
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  Speaker 1: so they can then raise money off of the funding
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  Speaker 1: of the hate and get a return on their investment.
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  Speaker 3: It's like a Ponzi scheme. You can't make it up.
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  Speaker 4: This story is one of the most astonishing stories. So
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  Speaker 4: the Southern Poverty Law Center has made a business for decades,
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  Speaker 4: a business convincing people, convincing liberals, convincing American corporations, convincing
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  Speaker 4: just ordinary Americans that they're these vicious racist America that
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  Speaker 4: need to be fought and their business and understand, the
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  Speaker 4: Southern Poverty Law Center raised hundreds of millions of dollars
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  Speaker 4: to fight these racists. What happened this week The Department
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  Speaker 4: of Justice indicted them, indicted them for money laundry and
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  Speaker 4: the evidence. I could not made this up. The Southern
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  Speaker 4: Poverty Law Center was funding the very bigots and racists
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  Speaker 4: that they claimed to be fighting. So, for example, here's
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  Speaker 4: the story in the Daily Signal, the SPLC was paying
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  Speaker 4: the Ku Klux Klan. Doj indictment claims the Southern Poverty
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  Speaker 4: Law Center has raised money for decades claiming to dismantle
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  Speaker 4: white supremacy, but it funneled millions of dollars. Let me
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  Speaker 4: repeat that, millions of dollars to white nationalist groups, including
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  Speaker 4: the Ku Klux Klan. According to the federal indictment handed
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  Speaker 4: down Tuesday, the SPLC claims it was funding informants inside
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  Speaker 4: the extremist groups. While the SPLC quote purports to fight
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  Speaker 4: white supremacy and racial hatred, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche
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  Speaker 4: said in press conference quote the SPLC was not dismantling
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  Speaker 4: those groups, it was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports
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  Speaker 4: to oppose. Lanch highlighted one example from the indictment where
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  Speaker 4: the SPLC paid a member of the leadership group that
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  Speaker 4: planned the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in
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  Speaker 4: twenty seventeen. It is stunning liberals funding bigots in order
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  Speaker 4: to raise money to fight the bigotry they're funding.
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  Speaker 1: There was a lot in the indictment that came out,
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  Speaker 1: but there's one theme that Cash Rettel made very clear
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  Speaker 1: as he was on John Handy's show. He made it
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  Speaker 1: real simple what this is about and why they were indicted.
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  Speaker 3: Here is Cash Hotel in his own words, funny doesn't lie.
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  Speaker 2: The charity that supposedly fought the clan funded the clan.
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  Speaker 2: The charity that supposedly fought ne Nazis funded Neo Nazis.
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  Speaker 2: The Southern Poverty Law Center ran a methodical, calculated scheme
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  Speaker 2: to defraud their donor base of three million dollars and
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  Speaker 2: lied to them and used an illicit banking structure system
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  Speaker 2: to create shell companies to their money and who it
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  Speaker 2: was being sent to, specifically for the reason to sow
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  Speaker 2: discord and hate into our society. This is the ultimate
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  Speaker 2: definition of hypocrisy. And if you look at the indictment
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  Speaker 2: produced by the Department of Justice and the FBI, you
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  Speaker 2: will see that these banking institutions tied directly the funding
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  Speaker 2: mechanisms in which the Southern Poverty Law Center used to
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  Speaker 2: fund at least eight hate groups. They supposedly wanted to
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  Speaker 2: take out, but they were paying the very villains of
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  Speaker 2: our society they supposedly wanted to protect us from.
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  Speaker 5: That's the ultimate hypocrisy.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, one of the things that I think
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  Speaker 1: is really interesting about this is there were warning signs
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  Speaker 1: for like quite some time. John Stossel back in January
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  Speaker 1: sixteenth to twenty eighteen, he did an expose on warning
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  Speaker 1: Americans about the Southern Propaty Law Center and how it
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  Speaker 1: used to have like an in theory, like a good theme.
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  Speaker 1: It used to be about, hey, we find hate groups
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  Speaker 1: and we name them, and we expose and we out them.
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  Speaker 1: And then it just turned into a radical left organization
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  Speaker 1: where Democrats could throw their money and when they threw
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  Speaker 1: their money in there, it would just basically attack conservatives
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  Speaker 1: and anybody on the hit list, which turned into it,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, turning point USA, it turned into Christian
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  Speaker 1: groups as well, groups that they named individuals like Laura
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  Speaker 1: Ingram for example, as one of those threats to America
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  Speaker 1: through the Southern Public Loss Army. That's they were doing
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  Speaker 1: that back in twenty sixteen.
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  Speaker 4: Well, and look, it was not just liberals that were
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  Speaker 4: funding them. It was corporate America. That they did an
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  Speaker 4: amazing job of extracting millions of dollars from giant corporations,
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  Speaker 4: and they'd say, look, we're going to fight hate and
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  Speaker 4: we're going to fight extremism. And they were rapidly partisan.
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  Speaker 4: They attacked conservatives. We knew that, but the latest piece
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  Speaker 4: of this indictment, I got to say a week ago, Ben,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know about you. Did you have on your
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  Speaker 4: Bengo card the Southern Publicly Law Center funding, the KKK
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  Speaker 4: funding the knoz no Like there's a level of cynicism.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And donations or corporate donations like Apple, Tim Cook
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  Speaker 1: a million bucks, JP Morgan a million bucks, JP Morgan
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  Speaker 1: half a million, MGM Resorts a million, like they were
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  Speaker 1: corporate America was giving money to them the same way
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  Speaker 1: they did to Black Lives Matter for example. It was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this is just something we got to check a box. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: what do you need? Will write you the check. And
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  Speaker 1: they had unlimited funds coming in and then they used
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  Speaker 1: it to again come after conservative and Christian organizations.
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  Speaker 4: And understand the charges here. The indictment charges of the
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  Speaker 4: SPLC with six counts of wire fraud aiming to obtained
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  Speaker 4: money via donations through materially false false representation and omissions
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  Speaker 4: about what the donated funds would be used for. It
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  Speaker 4: charges the SPLC with four counts of false statements to
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  Speaker 4: a federally insured bank by creating accounts for fictitious entities
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  Speaker 4: to funnel the money. Finally, it charges the SPLC with
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  Speaker 4: one count of conspiracy to commit concealment of money laundry.
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  Speaker 4: The Justice Department indictment claims the SPLC directed more than
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  Speaker 4: one million dollars to an affiliate of the National Alliance,
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  Speaker 4: more than three hundred thousand dollars to an affiliate of
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  Speaker 4: the Area Nations, more than two hundred and seventy thousand
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  Speaker 4: dollars to a member of the Unite the Right rally
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  Speaker 4: in Charlottesville, Virginia in twenty seventeen, more than one hundred
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  Speaker 4: and forty thousand dollars to a former chairman of the
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  Speaker 4: National Alliance, more than seventy three thousand dollars to a
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  Speaker 4: former Ku Klux Klan members, and more than nineteen thousand
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  Speaker 4: dollars to the president of the American Front. This was
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  Speaker 4: shameless and it was massive cash, Pettel said. The FBI's
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  Speaker 4: investigation revealed that the funds were used to facilitate the
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  Speaker 4: commission of further state and federal offenses totally, more than
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  Speaker 4: three million dollars. The magnitude of this. The depravity of this,
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  Speaker 4: it's staggering.
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  Speaker 1: I want to play stolesl. He did this again January sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. He was warning the country about the Southern
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  Speaker 1: Property Law Center years ago, saying they have lost their way.
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  Speaker 1: They are not what they say they are. Take a
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  Speaker 1: listen to him exposing them back in the day.
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  Speaker 6: There are dangerous hate groups in America?
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  Speaker 3: Who will warn us about them? The media have an
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  Speaker 3: answer The Southern Poverty Law Center, The Southern Poverty Law Center.
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  Speaker 6: The Southern Poverty Law Center, based in that building in Alabama,
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  Speaker 6: calls itself the premier group monitoring hate groups. Looking at
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  Speaker 6: their map of such groups, he'd think America was consumed
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  Speaker 6: by hate. I once believed in the center's mission. Well
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  Speaker 6: meaning people still do. Apple just gave them a million dollars.
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  Speaker 6: What dotors don't know is that today the center smears
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  Speaker 6: people who don't deserve to be smeared.
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  Speaker 2: The presence of radical Islam.
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  Speaker 6: This woman grew up in Somalia, suffered female genital mutilation,
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  Speaker 6: so now she speaks out against radical Islam. For that,
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  Speaker 6: the Center put her on its list.
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  Speaker 3: Multiculturalism failed these communities.
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  Speaker 6: This man was once an Islamic extremist, but then he
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  Speaker 6: decided radical Islam was wrong, and now he criticizes the
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  Speaker 6: radicals the Center labels him and anti Muslim extremists too.
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  Speaker 3: Join the fight against hate and bigotry. Visit Sblcenter dot org.
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  Speaker 5: I do think that we have a problem with hate
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  Speaker 5: in this country.
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  Speaker 4: We put about ten of these major hay groups out
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  Speaker 4: of business.
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  Speaker 6: The Center's leaders, Richard Cohen and Morris D's would not
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  Speaker 6: talk to me, so commentator Nomiki Kant stepped up to
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  Speaker 6: defend them.
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  Speaker 2: They have a history, a long history of fighting against
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  Speaker 2: extremists like the KKK.
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  Speaker 6: Years ago, Harper's magazine reported that the Center is the
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  Speaker 6: wealthiest civil rights group in America, one that spent most
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  Speaker 6: of its time and money on a fundraising campaign. Now,
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  Speaker 6: Morris D's did once promise to stop fundraising once his
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  Speaker 6: endowment hit fifty five million dollars, but when he reached
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: fifty five million, he changed that to one hundred million,
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  Speaker 6: saying that would allow them to cease costly fundraising. But
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  Speaker 6: when they reached one hundred million, they didn't stop.
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  Speaker 4: Today they have an endowment that now is over three
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  Speaker 4: hundred and twenty million dollars, much of which is an
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  Speaker 4: offshore counts Caymans and places.
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  Speaker 3: Like that, and how do you know, oh that we
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  Speaker 3: look at their nine nineties and it says Cayman Islands.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, they pay some of their people more than four
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  Speaker 6: hundred thousand years.
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  Speaker 4: Well it, you know, gets twenty seventeen.
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  Speaker 3: It's twenty seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: So we're just raising as much money from the left
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  Speaker 1: in corporate America.
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