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BANK OF AMERICA ACCUSED OF SPYING ON TRUMP SUPPORTERS FOR THE US GOVT! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: We've decided that we're going to do something on a
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  Speaker 1: more regular basis for you because we need you to
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  Speaker 1: know what's happening at the White House. My producer Diaz
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  Speaker 1: and I are going to dedicate ourselves to giving you
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  Speaker 1: the update of what the White House Pressecretary says each
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  Speaker 1: and every day that we can get our hands on
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  Speaker 1: the tapes, because there's a lot that they talk about.
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  Speaker 1: The White House Presecretary is just killing it. She's doing
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  Speaker 1: an amazing job. Jen is just unbelievable. And so before
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  Speaker 1: we get into the news of the day that we're
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  Speaker 1: now attacking the military members who might have voted for
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump, or Bank of America actually giving over your
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  Speaker 1: financial information if you were in and around DC to
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  Speaker 1: the FBI, which quite possibly could break the law, but
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  Speaker 1: they did it anyway because the FBI requests it so
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  Speaker 1: they can investigate you. Before we get into those stories,
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  Speaker 1: I really do believe it's important that you know what
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  Speaker 1: the White House had to say. And I want you
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  Speaker 1: to imagine if the former White House Press secretaries Sarah
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  Speaker 1: Hockaby Sanders or Killey mckin any did this every day,
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  Speaker 1: like every day. This is how they responded to question
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  Speaker 1: So here is our mini montage of the White House
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  Speaker 1: press briefing today. Take notes, because you're going to learn
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  Speaker 1: a lot. I'll have to talk to our national security
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  Speaker 1: team about that. I don't think I can get ahead
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  Speaker 1: of the President or frankly, the Secretary of State. There's
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  Speaker 1: a new secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. We're
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  Speaker 1: not going to get ahead of his decision making process.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have anything to preview for you in terms
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  Speaker 1: of specific actions. I haven't seen another update from them
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  Speaker 1: on an additional step. But I will see if there
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  Speaker 1: are any updates to a porbecta. I will see if
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  Speaker 1: there's an update on that particular pipeline. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: we have any update on that particular question. I don't
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  Speaker 1: have any scheduling updates for you at this point in time.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have a date for you on when there
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  Speaker 1: would be a proposal. Yeah, there you go. That's it, folks.
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  Speaker 1: You're welcome. That is your update from the wine House today.
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  Speaker 1: All of that that you just heard was from one
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  Speaker 1: press conference. I want to make that clear. That's not
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  Speaker 1: like a piece together her wearing different outfits. Some was
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  Speaker 1: on Monday and someone was on Wednesday. Someone on third No,
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  Speaker 1: that was just one day. Did she answer a question
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  Speaker 1: about anything? We're not sure. We're still trying to find
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  Speaker 1: an answer to question. It doesn't sound like this To
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  Speaker 1: talk to our national security team about that, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think I can get ahead of the President or frankly,
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  Speaker 1: the Secretary of State. There's a new secretary of the
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  Speaker 1: Department of Homeland Security. We're not going to get ahead
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  Speaker 1: of his decision making process. I don't have anything to
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  Speaker 1: preview for you in terms of specific actions. I haven't
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  Speaker 1: seen another update from them on an additional step, but
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  Speaker 1: I will see if there are any updates to report
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  Speaker 1: BacT it. I will see if there's an update on
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  Speaker 1: that particular pipeline. I don't think we have any update
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  Speaker 1: on that particular question. I don't have any scheduling updates
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  Speaker 1: for you at this point. But by the way, I
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  Speaker 1: do have to just point out something kind of obvious here.
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  Speaker 1: You know that now the White House is demanding that
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  Speaker 1: the reporters give their questions to them before the press briefing.
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  Speaker 1: So this is in front of them already knowing what
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  Speaker 1: the questions actually are. This is how bad they are
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  Speaker 1: at the White House press briefings. Or maybe it's not
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  Speaker 1: that they're bad at it. Maybe they just don't want
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  Speaker 1: you to know what the hell they're doing on anything,
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  Speaker 1: because then it's easier to get it done. This could
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  Speaker 1: be purposely done. I don't think that Jen, who full disclosure,
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  Speaker 1: I worked with at CNN and we've talked on the
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  Speaker 1: phone offline multiple times. I think she's smarter than this.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think she's this bad of a press secretary.
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  Speaker 1: I think this is being done deliberately on purpose, because
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  Speaker 1: if you don't answer any questions, is there any news
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  Speaker 1: to report? If you don't have to answer questions and
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  Speaker 1: you don't give anything to any of the stories that
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  Speaker 1: the reporters are trying to ask you about, then can
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  Speaker 1: you go out there and actually get done whatever it
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  Speaker 1: is you want to get done without having an answer
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  Speaker 1: a question before we even know what happened. The answer
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  Speaker 1: is yeah, I don't think Jen's is bad of a
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  Speaker 1: press secretary. I think this isn't actually a deliberate decision
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  Speaker 1: by this White House to never answer a question about anything.
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  Speaker 1: It's point in time. I don't have a date for
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  Speaker 1: you on when there would be a proposal. Now this
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  Speaker 1: is all remember all of your questions you're supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be giving to them in advance now, and this is
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  Speaker 1: still how they're answering those questions. Welcome to your White House.
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  Speaker 1: This is this is a woman that we're paying, like what,
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  Speaker 1: two hundred thousand dollars a year, two hundred grand a year,
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  Speaker 1: two hundred thousand dollars a year to do what you
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  Speaker 1: just heard there. This is it, folks, this is what
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  Speaker 1: your dollars are going for. Now, let's get onto this
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  Speaker 1: other big story. The National Guard protection at the US
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  Speaker 1: capital is now cost nearly a half a billion dollars.
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  Speaker 1: And something that should concern you about this the fact
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  Speaker 1: that there is no credible threat now to Washington, to
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  Speaker 1: the capital. We've been told that now over and over again. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: Democrats are keeping the military and a militarized zone around
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  Speaker 1: the United States Capital. It has cost nearly a half
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  Speaker 1: a billion dollars to deploy the twenty six thousand National
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  Speaker 1: Guard troops to quote secure the US capital. There's no
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  Speaker 1: indication that we need them anymore. There's no threats that
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  Speaker 1: would say we need the anymore there now. This cost
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  Speaker 1: includes transporting troops to Washing DC and their salaries and
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  Speaker 1: their benefits. The cost of deploying the twenty seven twenty
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  Speaker 1: six thousand National Guard troops to secure the capital in
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  Speaker 1: the wake of the January the sixth riot nearly a
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  Speaker 1: half billion dollars. Now. The deployment brought troops in from
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  Speaker 1: all fifty states and four territories as law enforce agencies
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  Speaker 1: try to lock down the capital for the inauguration in
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  Speaker 1: President Joe Biden. That's already happened. It's over thousands of
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  Speaker 1: Guard members poured into the nation's capital. We're in station
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  Speaker 1: across the city to black traffic and protect lawmakers and landmarks,
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  Speaker 1: you know the drill. So now, a half a billion
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  Speaker 1: dollars later, getting all these troops there, the question now becomes,
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  Speaker 1: why are they still there? Why the troops were activated
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  Speaker 1: by the federal government more than thirty days ago. Why
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  Speaker 1: are they still there? The National Guard last week mandate
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  Speaker 1: of the troops who were active would be allowed to
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  Speaker 1: use their active duty time for post nine to eleven
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  Speaker 1: Gibill education benefits as well. The educational benefits of National
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  Speaker 1: Guard soldiers and airmen are based on a percentage of
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  Speaker 1: how much active duty time they serve, so they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: get more benefits from this which is going to cost
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  Speaker 1: us more money. The Nash Guard troops are also mobilized
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  Speaker 1: to provide security in their respected state capitals. A thousand
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  Speaker 1: California National Guard troops are deployed to protect the capital
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  Speaker 1: and Sacramento. That costs about three point five million. Officials
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  Speaker 1: say the money is expect to cover the costs of
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  Speaker 1: guard through mid March, when the troops are expected to leave. Now,
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  Speaker 1: they also stay between five thousand and seven thousand troops
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  Speaker 1: for schedules staying Washington through March fourteenth. Why there's no
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  Speaker 1: threat right now that we have, and we also know
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  Speaker 1: that clearly they've got their act together with a normal
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  Speaker 1: police protection around the capital after what happened. But there's
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  Speaker 1: no direct, credible threat. It's generic. So what's going on here? Okay, well,
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  Speaker 1: maybe we can connect the dots for you while we're
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  Speaker 1: wasting a half a billion dollars with no threats to Washington,
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  Speaker 1: all because we have a militarized zone and we're locking
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  Speaker 1: everything down. The Defense Secretary has also come out and
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  Speaker 1: ordered a sixty days standdown to confront extremism within the military,
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  Speaker 1: something we mentioned yesterday on the show. The Defense Secretary,
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  Speaker 1: Lord Austin has called on the services to conduct a
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  Speaker 1: sixty day stand down on the issue of extremism and
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  Speaker 1: the military. He says it's prompted by the January of
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  Speaker 1: the sixth attack on the Capitol and subsequent reports of
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  Speaker 1: both active duty and former service members attending a rally
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  Speaker 1: calling to overturn the twenty twenty election and riots that ensued.
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  Speaker 1: Austin has held a meeting. Our Austin I say, held
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  Speaker 1: a meeting this week of the service secretaries and joint
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  Speaker 1: chiefs depending on spokesman John Kirby confirmed reporters to ask
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  Speaker 1: them about their concerns and ideas of improving the situation.
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  Speaker 1: Even though the numbers might be small, they said, they
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  Speaker 1: may not be as small as we like them to be,
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  Speaker 1: or we believe them to be. That's the Defense Secretary
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  Speaker 1: said on the prevalence of troops with extremist views ties
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  Speaker 1: to these types of experience activities, and no matter what
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  Speaker 1: it is, it is not an insignificant problem. Now we
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  Speaker 1: still don't know what these views actually are because no
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  Speaker 1: one will tell us. So, like, what are the extremist views? Right?
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  Speaker 1: What are these extremist views? Can anyone explain to me
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  Speaker 1: what they are? Besides labeling people that are conservatives as
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  Speaker 1: being extremists, or those that support Donald Trump is now
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  Speaker 1: being extremists. We're actually going into like a shutdown because
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  Speaker 1: of this, a shutdown. We're doing it. We're sixty days here, folks.
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  Speaker 1: We're doing a stand down order to confront extremist military.
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  Speaker 1: But no one will tell us what the extremism actually is.
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  Speaker 1: A vetting of the troops, I would call this not
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  Speaker 1: a vetting of the troops. I would actually call it
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  Speaker 1: an indictment of the troops. To be honest with you,
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  Speaker 1: this sounds exactly like an indictment of the troops. You're
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  Speaker 1: going through and you're seeing who's around, who it is
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  Speaker 1: that you can screw over, who it is that shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: get a raise, Who is it that shouldn't get a
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  Speaker 1: new promotion because they might disagree with you politically. Now
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  Speaker 1: that guidance is forthcoming on what Austin expects to see
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  Speaker 1: after the sixty day period, Kirby said of Austin's direction
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  Speaker 1: to the service secretaries and Joint chiefs, quote, he was
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  Speaker 1: very clear that he wants commands to take the necessary time,
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  Speaker 1: and I didn't hear him be overly prescriptive about that
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  Speaker 1: to speak with troops about the scope of this problem,
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  Speaker 1: and certainly to get a sense from them about what
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  Speaker 1: they're seeing at their level. Hold on a second, did
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  Speaker 1: the Defense Secretary just basically tell people in the military
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  Speaker 1: to start narking on their fellow man and woman in uniform,
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  Speaker 1: turning in the Conservatives, turning in the Trump supporters, turning
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  Speaker 1: in the Second Amendment, guys, sounds like it. The Defense
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  Speaker 1: Department does not centrally track troops who have been investigated
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  Speaker 1: for domestic terrorism or extremism sentiment. Time out is what
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  Speaker 1: is the definition of extremist sentiment? Because I want to
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  Speaker 1: go back in time to Major Nadal Hassan, I want
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  Speaker 1: to go back to Forthood. I want to go back
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  Speaker 1: to the other terrorists attacks that we've actually had on
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  Speaker 1: military basis over the last decade. When we came out
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  Speaker 1: on this show and raise the question about Muslim extremism
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  Speaker 1: within the military, we were immediately attacked as being anti Islamic.
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  Speaker 1: Islamophobia is how they put it, because you're not allowed
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  Speaker 1: to ask that question. And even though someone's actually shooting
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  Speaker 1: and killing American men and women in uniform while yelling
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  Speaker 1: Allah akbar, i can't bring that up without someone accusing
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  Speaker 1: me of being Islamophobic. Did they do anything like this
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  Speaker 1: during that time? No, right, no, think about that. We
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  Speaker 1: had no investigation. We had no intense investigation. I want
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  Speaker 1: to make that very very clear. Okay, we did not
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  Speaker 1: do a deep dive into the military. We didn't do
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  Speaker 1: a sixty days stand down order in the military. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's something we did not do. No one did that.
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  Speaker 1: You couldn't ask questions even after there was a second attack,
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  Speaker 1: even after there was a third attack. You couldn't do
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  Speaker 1: a deep dive into the military and shut everything down
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  Speaker 1: for sixty days to look see, Hey, is there extremism
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  Speaker 1: in the military? Is there Islamic extremists in our US military?
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  Speaker 1: They've infiltrated our US military. Not allowed to ask that question, folks,
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  Speaker 1: You can't go there because that's politically incorrect. Fast forward
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  Speaker 1: to now where we are in the Defense Secretary and
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  Speaker 1: the Department of Defense is saying, we've got to look
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  Speaker 1: at these troops and find out are there domestic terrorists
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  Speaker 1: within the United States ranks? And is there extremist sentiment?
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  Speaker 1: I have to go back to the extremist sentiment. What
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  Speaker 1: is the definition of being an extremist now in the
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  Speaker 1: name in the eyes of the military. What it seems
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  Speaker 1: to be pretty clearly what they seem to be implying,
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  Speaker 1: is it for you to be considered an extremists If
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  Speaker 1: you're a guy that posts Donald Trump is my President,
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  Speaker 1: or MAGA or make America a grade again, or anything
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  Speaker 1: related to any of that seems to be enough to
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  Speaker 1: then label you as an extremist in the military. So
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  Speaker 1: for the next sixty days, the military is asking other
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  Speaker 1: military members to basically turn on you and turn people in.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they seem to be advocating for here. Turn
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  Speaker 1: them in, right, I mean, I mean, I mean seriously,
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  Speaker 1: turn them in. Tell us about your friends that scare you.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us about your friends in the military that you
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  Speaker 1: think might have been radicalized by Donald Trump, because now
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  Speaker 1: that's a new terror form of terrorism, domestic terrorism. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not kidding. This is what they're doing for the next
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  Speaker 1: sixty days, and it certainly could be extended beyond that.
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  Speaker 1: There's no indication by the way that this will stop
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  Speaker 1: this harassment. Now, if you're really looking at extremism, then
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't they be looking at all extremism, Muslim extremism, Black
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  Speaker 1: Lives Matter extremism and TIFA extremism, because that's not on
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  Speaker 1: the list. Folks, None of what I just mentioned to
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  Speaker 1: you is on the lists. Think about that. The only
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  Speaker 1: extremism they're looking into is conservative extremism, meaning you're a Republican.
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  Speaker 1: I would actually feel better about this if they said,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna do it all right, We're gonna do all
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  Speaker 1: of this. We're gonna look at all extremism. We're not
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  Speaker 1: just gonna look at conservative extremism, if that's even a thing.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna look at all extremism. That's what should be
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  Speaker 1: brought up here. You want to look at Antifa extremism,
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  Speaker 1: I would argue that that's a big threat to this country.
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  Speaker 1: You want to look at Muslim extremism. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: also something we've seen to be deadly within our military
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  Speaker 1: on our military basis over the last decade, and more
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  Speaker 1: than just in one occasion. So I'm it's not just
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  Speaker 1: like a one off here. You want to do a
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  Speaker 1: deep dive into the political threats and views, Okay, then
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  Speaker 1: let's do it, like, let's really go all in on this.
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  Speaker 1: Let's actually let's take a pause and let's let everyone
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  Speaker 1: for everything, not just one side of the aisle, because
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  Speaker 1: that's the only thing they're doing right now. Do you
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  Speaker 1: have any idea how many extremists could be in the
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  Speaker 1: military that have posted things about Antifa or Black Lives Matter?
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  Speaker 1: How is that not on the list if supporting Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump is now on the list to root at extremism.
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  Speaker 1: Pentagon told reporters that the FBI opened one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: forty three investigations and the troops and veterans in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty sixty eight of those were for domestic extremism. What
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  Speaker 1: does that mean? No one can answer that question. The
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  Speaker 1: sixty eight of those for domestic extremism. I want to
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  Speaker 1: know how many those are Muslim extremism, and they won't
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  Speaker 1: tell you that right the DoD By the way, also,
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  Speaker 1: they do have a twenty twelve instruction that prohibits extremist activities,
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  Speaker 1: though it doesn't clearly define extremism itself. So maybe you
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  Speaker 1: guys should start without at the military at least to
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  Speaker 1: finding so that we're not having to guess what the
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  Speaker 1: definition of extremist activities is, because it sounds like what
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  Speaker 1: you're saying is that an extremist activity would actually be
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  Speaker 1: would have been supporting Donald Trump, the commander in chief
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  Speaker 1: of our military, if you supported him while in the military.
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  Speaker 1: It seems to be they're now saying that that is
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  Speaker 1: the definition of extremism. Yeah, that should scare the hell
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  Speaker 1: out of every one of you listening. They don't define generally,
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  Speaker 1: the service handles these investigations, they say at a unit
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  Speaker 1: level or with the FBI if it comes to plans
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  Speaker 1: for attacks, for instance, and there is no requirement to
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  Speaker 1: report those up to service headquarters. I wonder how many
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  Speaker 1: Muslim extremists we've had in the military that we buried
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  Speaker 1: those stories because it doesn't fit the political narrative of
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  Speaker 1: the day. The Military Times, which is the military basically
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  Speaker 1: news service newspaper, however you want to put it their own.
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  Speaker 1: Polling has shown that anecdotally, more than one third of
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  Speaker 1: active duty troops and more than half of minority service
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  Speaker 1: members have witness signs, they say, of white supremacy in
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  Speaker 1: their colleagues. Further, survey respondents ranked white nationalism is a
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  Speaker 1: bigger national security threat than domestic terrorist groups affiliated with Islam,
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  Speaker 1: for instance. So the White House and the Pentagon are
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  Speaker 1: now saying the events of January eleven served as a
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  Speaker 1: wake up call for the Department of Defense. So we
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  Speaker 1: got two month window that will allow, they say, time
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  Speaker 1: for units to strategize and schedule how they'll stand down,
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  Speaker 1: rather than declaring a specific day for everyone to do
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  Speaker 1: the same work. We owe the force, We owe these
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  Speaker 1: leaders some training materials, some deeper, more specific guidance about
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  Speaker 1: what the expectations are for the standown, and some thoughts
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  Speaker 1: about how feedback can we can provide. They've went on
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  Speaker 1: to say, so we got sixty days of a standdown. Cool,
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  Speaker 1: and we're gonna find every conservative and we're gonna label
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  Speaker 1: them in the military, and we're going to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that everybody knows who they are. That's what this seems
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  Speaker 1: to be about. It's not just the military, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: Bank of America they're also in on it too. Fox
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  Speaker 1: News host Tucker Carlson reported exclusively on his show that
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  Speaker 1: Bank of America Erica is allegedly turning over private information
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  Speaker 1: about its customers to federal law enforcement officials without the
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  Speaker 1: knowledge or consent of any of the customers involved. All
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  Speaker 1: this under the name of an apparent effort to identify
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  Speaker 1: those who may have participated in the January of the
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  Speaker 1: six rights US Capital, all this being done without a warrant.
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  Speaker 1: Carlson let off the segment by talking about how the
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  Speaker 1: Biden administration and law enforcement has stated that they want
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  Speaker 1: to go after quote, domestic extremists, but if not laid
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  Speaker 1: out a clear definition of even what qualifies anyone as
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  Speaker 1: an extremist. Sounds a lot like what they're doing in
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  Speaker 1: the military, doesn't it. It's almost like they took this
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  Speaker 1: same enter and said, apply it anywhere you want to,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: because as long as you make up a paranoid reason,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: you can justify your means. Sounds a lot like what
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: they've been doing with COVID nineteen lockdowns. In fact, I'm
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: starting to see a trend here, and if you're you're
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: not paying attention, it's what I've warned you about. Same
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: thing with the CDC now becoming like a military force.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: The same thing with the Department of Homeland Security saying
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: that TSA agents can basically now arrest you kick you
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: off planes. With all these mass mandate rules and all
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: these new laws that were made even though no one,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: not a single person even voted on any of the laws.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: So now it's going into the banking world because we
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: can get away with it? Why not? Right? So what
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: exactly are they doing? Is the question that we should
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: be asking. How are they hunting these extremists they keep
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: telling us about, but they will not describe to us
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: because they need to keep it broads. They can do
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: whatever the hell they want. Take a listen to this
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: exclusive information that Tugger Carlson got on Bank of America
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: literally assisting the FBI on the Capitol riot probe without
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: the customers knowing anything about it, treating their customers like
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: they could be a possible member of Alkaida? Have you
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: noticed none of these newly energized and highly empowered extremist
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: hunters have told us exactly what an extremist is, So
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: we're left to gas. We're left to look around nervously
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: to see if we can spot one, hoping against hope
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  Speaker 1: the whole time. They're not talking about us, are they,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: And if they are, what exactly are they doing? How
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: are they hunting these extremists they keep telling us about
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: but will not describe. We now know part of the
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: answer to that question. This show has obtained exclusively evidence
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: that Bank of America, the second largest bank in the
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: country with more than sixty million customers is actively but
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: secretly engaged in the hunt for extremists in cooperation with
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: the government. Bank of America is without the knowledge or
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: the consent of its customers, sharing private information with federal
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: law enforcement agencies. Of America effectively is acting as an
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: intelligence agency, but they're not telling you about it. In
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: the days after the January sixth riot at the Capital,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Bank of America went through its own customers, financial and
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: transaction records, a lot of them. Now, these were the
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: private records of Americans who had committed no crime, people who,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: as far as we know, had absolutely nothing to do
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: with what happened at the Capitol on January sixth. But
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: at the request of federal investigators, Bank of America searched
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: its databases looking for people who fit a specific profile.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Here's what that profile was, and we are quoting customers
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: confirmed as transacting either through bank account, debit card, or
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: credit card purchases in Washington, DC between January fifth and
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: January sixth. Number two. Purchases made for hotels, Airbnb RSVPs
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: in Washington, Virginia or Maryland after January sixth. Number three,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: any purchase of weapons or at a weapons related merchant
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: between seventh and their upcoming suspected stay in the DC
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: area around Inauguration Day, and four airline related purchases sixth
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: sith since January sixth end quote. So what do you
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: notice about that profile? Well, the first thing you notice
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: is that it's remarkably broad. Any purchases of anything in
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: the city of Washington, d C. Any overnight stay anywhere
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: in the three state area that spans hundreds of miles,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: any purchase not simply of legal firearms but instead anything
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: bought from a quote weapons related merchant T shirts included.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: And then any airline related purchases not just flights to Washington,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: fights to anywhere, to Omaha, to Thailand. That is a very,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: very wide net, an absurdly wide net. Bank of America
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: identified a total of two hundred and eleven customers who
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: met these quote thresholds of interest, and it was at
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: that point, the show has learned Bank of America turned
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: over the results of its internal scan to federal authorities,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: apparently without notifying the customers who were being spied upon.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Federal investigators then interviewed at least one of these unsuspecting people,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: and that person we've learned hadn't done anything wrong and
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: in the end was cleared. Imagine if you were that person,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: the FBI hauls you in for questioning in a terror investigation,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: not because you've done anything suspicious, you haven't. You bought
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: plane tickets and visited your country's capital. You thought you
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: could do that, you thought it was your country. Now
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: they're sweating you because your bank, which you trust with
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: your most private information, information of everything you buy, has
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: ratted you out to the FEDS without telling you, without
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: your knowledge. Because Bank of America did that, you were
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: being treated like a member of al Qaida. What country
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: is this? It doesn't matter how much you despise Donald
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Trump or how much you believe that hatred of Trump,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: just by suspending this country's ancient civil liberties, going through
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: that experience would scare the hell out of you. Absolutely,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: a terror suspect, you would think, does anyone else know
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: about this? Is there a record of this interview? Why
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: I lose my job because of it? That actually happened
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: to someone. It's hard to believe it, but it did.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: We asked Bank of America about this. They confirmed it
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: actually happened by not denying it. Here's their statement in
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: full which manages to make the whole thing even creepier,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: assuming that's possible. Quote, we don't comment on our communications
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: with law enforcement. Well, apparently not all banks. It continues,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: have responsibilities under federal law to cooperate with law enforcement
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: inquiries in full compliance with the law. End quote. Now,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: the last part, from a lawyer's perspective is the essence,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: in full compliance with the law. It's the law. We
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: had no choice. But that's not true. Bank of America
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: did have a choice. The bank could have resisted turning
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: over information on its innocent customers to federal investigators. But
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Bank of America did not do that. Nor is it clear,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: if we're going to be precise about it, that what
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Bank of America did is even legal. It turns out
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: it's not simple. It's a gray area. We spoke to
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: a number of lawyers about this today. Some of them
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: told us that what Bank of America did might in
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: fact not be legal and could in fact be challenged
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: in court. So the point that Carlson is making here
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: is you have a bank, one of the largest banks
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: in America, the second largest bank in the country in fact,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: with more than sixty million customers, who is actively but
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: secretly engaging in the hunt for what they referred to
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: as conservative extremists in cooperation with the United States government.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Bank of America is doing this without the knowledge, without
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: the consent of its customers. Their ship your private information
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: with the federal law enforcement agencies because they want to
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: root out their definition of extremism, which is supporting Donald Trump.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Bank of America and what they are actually doing is
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: they are becoming an intelligence gathering agency for the intelligence
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: gathering agencies of the government, and they're not telling you
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: about it. They're looking at your purchases and profiling your purchases.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: They're looking at your movements in the country and profiling
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: those movements. They're looking at where you eat, where you stay,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: where you rented, what you were doing, where you swiped
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: your card, where you got money out of an ATM.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: And they're building an intelligence agency within Bank of America
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: to then spy on you and what it is that
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: you are doing, and they're not telling you about it.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: The days after January the sixth ride at the Capitol,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Bank of America said is We're gonna go through all
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: of our customers financials and transaction records for anywhere in
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: the area, your private records, your private records on you.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: You've committed no crime as far as we know, You're
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: just an American using your debit card. You could have
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: had absolutely nothing to do with what happened at the
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: capital in January sixth, and the majority of the sixty
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: million customers didn't. But nevertheless they said, please, yes, we
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: would love to help you. Government federal investigators will happily
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: become an intelligence agency on your behalf of our customers.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: We're gonna search it. We're gonna search our customers, our databases.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: We're gonna look for people that that that fit these
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: specific profiles that are incredibly broad. Again, look at what
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: they asked for. They combed through your bank accounts, your
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: debit cards, your credit card purchases. If you were in
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: and around washing DC on the fifth of the sixth
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: of January, any purchases put you on their intelligence list,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: their watch lists. If you stayed at a hotel in
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Airbnb in Washington, Virginia or Maryland on or after January
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: the sixth, any purchases of weapons. Immediately, they alerted the
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: FBI to that, even though there was no firearms used
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: at the Capitol by any of the people that were
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: there and or weapons related merchandise between January the seventh
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: and the upcoming suspected stay in the DC area around
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: the inauguration day, and of course, if you traveled on
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: an airline and you purchase a ticket since January the sixth, bam,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: you're on the intelligence surveillance list of Bank of America,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: who then turns over that list the federal government without
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: your notice. You've been profiled. If you still continue to
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: bank a Bank of America after this, that's on you.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: I'm just here to let you know this is what
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: they're doing, and I'll leave it at that.