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Trump Voters Labeled Extremists and to be Followed by FBI · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: If you voted for Donald Trump, just know that you
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  Speaker 1: are now going to be targeted by the FBI as
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four election nears.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Newsweek has broken the story that the federal government believes
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  Speaker 1: that the threat of violence and major civil disturbances around
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty for US presidential election is so great
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  Speaker 1: that it has quietly created a new category of extremists
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  Speaker 1: that it seeks to.
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  Speaker 2: Quote, track and counter. How are you? How do you
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  Speaker 2: get on this list? If you voted for Donald J. Trump.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, Donald Trump and his quote army of MAGA
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  Speaker 1: followers are now going to be tracked by the FBI
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  Speaker 1: from now through the twenty twenty four US presidential election cycle.
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  Speaker 1: The challenge, Newsweek reports, for the FBI, the primary federal
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  Speaker 1: agency charged with law enforcement, is to pursue and prevent
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  Speaker 1: what it calls domestic terrorism without direct reference to political
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  Speaker 1: parties or affiliations. So you can't say, hey, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: monitor Republicans, right, So what can you say? You can
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  Speaker 1: say you're investigating and going after Trump supporters. Yes, even
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  Speaker 1: though the vast majority of its current anti government investigations,
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  Speaker 1: we also now know anti government investigations are of quote
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  Speaker 1: Trump supporters. That according to classified data that was obtained
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  Speaker 1: by Newsweek. So this is classified information that was given
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  Speaker 1: to Newsweek, and it says, all right, look, we can't
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  Speaker 1: categorize the Republican Party as domestic terrorists. But what we
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  Speaker 1: can do is we can say the vast majority of
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  Speaker 1: Trump supporters are quote anti government, and the majority of
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  Speaker 1: our current anti government investigations are of Trump supporters. That
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  Speaker 1: is their words, according to classified data.
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  Speaker 2: Quote.
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  Speaker 1: The FBI is in an almost impossible position, says a
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  Speaker 1: current FBI official who requested aminity to discuss highly sensitive
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  Speaker 1: internal matters. The official said that the FBI is intent
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  Speaker 1: on stopping domestic terrorism and any repeat of the January sixth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one attack on the Capitol, but the bureau
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  Speaker 1: must also preserve the constitutional rights of all Americans to
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  Speaker 1: quote campaign speak freely and promote protest the government.
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  Speaker 2: They now say, how are they going to get around
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  Speaker 2: all that?
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  Speaker 1: By focusing on former President Trump and his MAGA make
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  Speaker 1: America Great against supporters, The official says, the bureau runs
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  Speaker 1: the risk of provoking the very anti government activities that
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  Speaker 1: the terrorism agencies claim their hoping to calm down and
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  Speaker 1: or counter, the officials said to Newsweek, quote, especially at
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  Speaker 1: a time when the White House is facing Congressional Republican
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  Speaker 1: opposition claiming that the Biden administration has quote weaponized the
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  Speaker 1: Bureau against the right wing, it has to tread very carefully.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 1: There is no accusation of them coming after and weaponizing
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  Speaker 1: the DOJ and the FBI to come against conservatives, folks.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly what they're doing. They're doing it in broad daylight.
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  Speaker 1: They're doing against the President of the United States of America.
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  Speaker 1: They're trying to put Donald Trump in prison right now
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  Speaker 1: for crimes that he did not commit, knowing that he
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  Speaker 1: didn't commit the crimes, because they want to silence the
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  Speaker 1: president of the United States of America. They want to
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  Speaker 1: make sure you don't have the chance to actually vote
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  Speaker 1: for him, and now if you support him, they now
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  Speaker 1: say that this is what's going to happen now. Also
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  Speaker 1: has also reviewed secret FBI and Department of Homeland Security
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  Speaker 1: data that tracks incidents, threats, investigations, and cases to try
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  Speaker 1: to build a better picture. While experts agree that the
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  Speaker 1: current partisan environment is charged and uniquely dangerous, with a
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  Speaker 1: threat not only of violence but in the most extreme scenarios,
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  Speaker 1: possibly civil war. They now claim. Many also question whether quote,
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  Speaker 1: terrorism is the most effective way to describe the problem.
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  Speaker 1: So we're all terrorists, it's terrorism, and they describe us
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  Speaker 1: in the internal documents as a problem. So more than
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  Speaker 1: half of America is now a problem in the eyes
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  Speaker 1: of the FBI. They also say that the methods of
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  Speaker 1: counter terrorism developed over the past decade in response to
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  Speaker 1: you ready for this, al Qaeda and other Islamic groups,
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  Speaker 1: constitutes the most fruitful way to craft domestic solutions. So
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  Speaker 1: to be clear, in this actual document that is classified,
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  Speaker 1: it's been leaked to Newsweek, they are describing the problem
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  Speaker 1: of Magas supporters Trump voters as the same as al Qaeda.
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  Speaker 1: And then they said they're going to use the same
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  Speaker 1: methods of counter terrorism developed over the past decade in
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  Speaker 1: response to al Qaeda and other Islamic groups to then
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  Speaker 1: monitor you. Now, my question is this, if I go
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  Speaker 1: to a conservative rally, am I now domestic terrorists like
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  Speaker 1: al Qaeda? Am I going to be treated the same
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  Speaker 1: as al Qaeda?
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  Speaker 2: Quote?
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  Speaker 1: The current political environment is not something that the FBI
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  Speaker 1: is necessarily responsible for, nor should it be. That's what
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  Speaker 1: Brian Michael Jenkins, one of the world's leading terrorism experts
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  Speaker 1: and senior advisors the president of the RAND Corporations, so
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  Speaker 1: he's justifying this. In a statement to Newsweek, the FBI said, quote,
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  Speaker 1: the threat posed by domestic violence extremists is persistent, evolving,
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  Speaker 1: and deadly. Okay, let's go back January six. They say
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  Speaker 1: they're trying to prevent January six from happening again. They're saying,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's just like al Qaida. How many people died
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  Speaker 1: on January sixth one? And how did that woman die?
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  Speaker 1: She was shot by Capitol police officer. She didn't have
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  Speaker 1: a weapon and they shot her, and he wasn't charged
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  Speaker 1: of any crimes and they shot her.
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  Speaker 2: Let's be clear about that.
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  Speaker 1: But what the FBI is saying now publicly after they've
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  Speaker 1: been busted with this memo is quote the threat posed
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  Speaker 1: by domestic violent extremism is extremists is persistent, evolving, and deadly.
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  Speaker 1: So even though no one killed anybody on January six,
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  Speaker 1: except for Capitol police shooting a woman who didn't have
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  Speaker 1: a gun or did not and did not have a weapon,
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  Speaker 1: the FBI is now saying we have to now go
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  Speaker 1: out and treat MAGA supporters like this. They are domestic terrorists,
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to use the same tools we use
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  Speaker 1: against al Qaeda. After nine to eleven, the FBI's goal
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  Speaker 1: quote is to detect and stop terrorists attacks, and our
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  Speaker 1: focus is on potential criminal violations, violence and threats to
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  Speaker 1: violence quote. Anti government, anti authority, violent extremists is one
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  Speaker 1: category of domestic terrorism as well as one of the
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  Speaker 1: FBI's top threat priorities. The FBI further said, quote, we
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  Speaker 1: are committed to protecting the safety and constitutional rights of
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  Speaker 1: all Americans.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's bs.
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  Speaker 1: No, they're not and will never open an investigation based
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  Speaker 1: solely on First Amendment protected activity, including a person's political
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  Speaker 1: beliefs or affiliation. Well that's a lie, because you guys
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  Speaker 1: actually went after parents and declared they were domestic terrorists
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  Speaker 1: for showing up and expressing their First Amendment protected rights
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  Speaker 1: at school board meetings. We have the memo. The FBI
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  Speaker 1: is lying to you. This is what they do in
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  Speaker 1: third world countries and communists and socialist countries. Now you
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  Speaker 1: want to know what the White House has to say
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  Speaker 1: about this. The White House declined to commant on any
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  Speaker 1: of this. Wow, there's also something else that's happened that
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  Speaker 1: has come out of Newsweek, by the way, calling everyone
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  Speaker 1: that's a Trump supporter or a domestic terrorists and well,
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  Speaker 1: they're not calling us that. Let me rephrase that the
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  Speaker 1: Biden administration, the FBI is not going to be monitoring
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  Speaker 1: people that identify as Trump's supporters. The part that's interesting
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  Speaker 1: about this is there's also another headline, and that is
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump is going to be going apparently to Capitol
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  Speaker 1: Hill next week to talk to people on Capitol Hill,
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  Speaker 1: or at least going to Washington to meet with people
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  Speaker 1: on Capitol Hill about him possibly becoming the Speaker.
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  Speaker 2: Of the House.
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  Speaker 1: Now, this is pretty interesting, okay, because if he became
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  Speaker 1: the speaker, and let's entertain this idea for a second,
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  Speaker 1: because it's Jim Jordan's running that is, you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: Steve Scalise that apparently is trying to run. But if
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump came in and Donald Trump decided, all right,
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  Speaker 1: I want to be the speaker, I'll be the speaker,
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  Speaker 1: right and.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to come in here.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine what he could do as speaker on the issue
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  Speaker 1: of protecting our First Amendment right to free speech against
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  Speaker 1: the FBI coming after us and deciding that anyone that
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  Speaker 1: likes or supports Donald Trump is a terrorist on a
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  Speaker 1: watch list that should be monitored, because that's what they
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  Speaker 1: said they are going to do.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump made it clear, all right. He made it
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  Speaker 1: very clear when he came out when he was asked
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  Speaker 1: about this. Hey, I will do whatever I need to
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  Speaker 1: do to serve this country. And if that is something
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  Speaker 1: that I do temporarily to serve this country, then then
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  Speaker 1: is he put it?
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  Speaker 2: So be it?
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  Speaker 1: That is a line that is one that people are
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  Speaker 1: going to keep talking about. Should Donald Trump become the
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  Speaker 1: Speaker of the House, What does that look like and
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  Speaker 1: what does that mean? I gotta go back to Trump
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  Speaker 1: and this idea of Okay, would he be an effective speaker?
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  Speaker 1: He'd be a hell of a lot better I think
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  Speaker 1: than Kevin McCarthy. Would he be an effective speaker while
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  Speaker 1: running for president and also while being in court.
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  Speaker 2: I think it gives.
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  Speaker 1: Him a platform at would make it very interesting. Do
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  Speaker 1: I think he'd do worse than Kevin McCarthy. No, But
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump has said over and over again, I want
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  Speaker 1: to serve this country. There are people that believe him
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  Speaker 1: when he says that. There's others that do. I tend
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  Speaker 1: to believe him. You look at this fraud trial against him,
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  Speaker 1: and he says, look, they're weaponizing the justice to they're
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  Speaker 1: weaponizing it against me. As he walked to that courtroom
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  Speaker 1: in New York, he's reminding us that, hey, this is
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  Speaker 1: what they will do to you.
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  Speaker 3: This switch up that's going on using statues see well,
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  Speaker 3: which you take consumer prot statue which maybe a constitution, Does.
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  Speaker 2: It allow me a jury?
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  Speaker 3: Does it allow me anything? We have an agent prosecutor
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  Speaker 3: or teach your change who's in college, which he's doing
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  Speaker 3: through our state, or seeing companies out by the thousands
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  Speaker 3: or ten people out but bodies out by the thousands,
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  Speaker 3: while crime and violence driving in particular runs Granted, this
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  Speaker 3: switch hunt does not allow me the juris a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people saying, oh, that can't be possible. Somebody didn't
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  Speaker 3: check about to do with it. Hundred sixty three twelve.
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  Speaker 3: You will not entitled to a jury the first time.
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  Speaker 3: It's never been used for purpose, like it's never been
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  Speaker 3: used the US. It of me, the form of presidents,
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  Speaker 3: the leading candidate and leading Joe Biden by a lot,
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  Speaker 3: which is probably why this is all happening, not probably
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  Speaker 3: what can definitely they could work be watching again money
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  Speaker 3: you were said, but without that, none of these cases
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  Speaker 3: would be going along feminize justice in our guy, this
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  Speaker 3: trial is a disgrace.
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  Speaker 2: Never happened.
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  Speaker 3: The thing like this happens more simply and put it
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  Speaker 3: in for that act of stays with a dislay another word,
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  Speaker 3: fading to the bat. I borrowed money, Arnora, very others
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  Speaker 3: borrowed money, arm ability or something. It's making different things.
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  Speaker 2: You go back to what you're saying about this case.
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  Speaker 1: They devalued his pretty like mar a Lago, for example,
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  Speaker 1: said it's worth what I think they said eighteen million.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody knows if you've been to mar Lago that you
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  Speaker 1: can look it up on the internet. You know that's
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  Speaker 1: not worth and anybody would buy it for that amount
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  Speaker 1: of money.
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  Speaker 2: How I'd buy it for that amount of money.
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  Speaker 1: They're coming after this guy because they're afraid they can't
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  Speaker 1: beat him. They're coming after this guy because they want
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  Speaker 1: to teach a lesson to anybody in the that thinks
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  Speaker 1: they might be like a Trump Republican and not a
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  Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy Republican right that plays the game within the
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  Speaker 1: rules of the city and gets along with the Democrats,
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  Speaker 1: and and you know, if you come to Washington and
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  Speaker 1: you don't take on the FBI, take on the deep state,
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  Speaker 1: then find they'll let you do your job right as
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  Speaker 1: long as you leave them alone. But if you do,
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  Speaker 1: they'll turn on you. And the Democratic Party has now
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  Speaker 1: said they will turn on you. Now they've turned on Trump.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to be in court. I don't even know
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  Speaker 1: years over all of this. But they're also coming after you,
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  Speaker 1: which is exactly what says when the FBIS comes out
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  Speaker 1: and says that MAGA Republicans are a top threat, and
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  Speaker 1: the FBI then says, well, we're committed to protecting the
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  Speaker 1: safety and the constitutional rights of all Americans.
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  Speaker 2: Know you're not.
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  Speaker 1: They said, we'll never open investigation based only on first
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  Speaker 1: men of protect activity.
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  Speaker 2: That's a lie.
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  Speaker 1: They open investigations into people church because they were traditional Catholics.
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  Speaker 1: They categorize parents who to their school boards and spoke
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  Speaker 1: about their kids and about their curriculum, about their schools, which,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, the parents with their tax dollars, and
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  Speaker 1: they said that they were domestic terrorists.
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  Speaker 2: They said they were domestic terrorists. That is opening an.
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  Speaker 1: Investigation labelling people solely based on First Amendment issue. But hey,
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  Speaker 1: the FBI says, we never open we will never open
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  Speaker 1: an investigation based protective activity, including a person's political beliefs
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  Speaker 1: or affiliations.
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  Speaker 2: That is a lie.
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  Speaker 1: They're coming after Trump, and they're coming after you if
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  Speaker 1: you voted for Trump, and they have the memos that
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  Speaker 1: we now have to prove it words, Donald Trump and
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  Speaker 1: magg Republicans are a threat to the very soul of
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  Speaker 1: this country. Donald Trump and magg Republicans so and he
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  Speaker 1: won that voted for him, to the very soul of
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  Speaker 1: this country. That is President Biden's own words in his
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  Speaker 1: own tweet last September, I'm tweeting, let's be honest, it's
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  Speaker 1: his administration. It's his administration. That's the first time that
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  Speaker 1: he explicitly referring to Biden singled out and his supporters
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  Speaker 1: as a threat to this country. You are a terrorist
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  Speaker 1: threat because you support Trump or voted for Trump, and
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  Speaker 1: they will come after you, just like they're coming after
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump if you get too big. The idea of
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump possibly becoming the speaker in the midst of
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  Speaker 1: all this, I don't have a problem with it. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: I think it would be very interesting to see what
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  Speaker 1: he could do and how he would lead the Republicans
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  Speaker 1: very differently than Kevin McCarthy and go to war with
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats and the deep state. As a speaker, now
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  Speaker 1: to hear what Senator Ted Cruz had to say about
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  Speaker 1: you being targeted by the FB if you voted for
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump, obviously Ted Cruz would be on the list.
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  Speaker 2: I'm on the list.
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  Speaker 1: And if you voted in the last election on Trump
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  Speaker 1: or the one before, you're on the list, and the
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  Speaker 1: FBI is going to monitor and come after you and
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  Speaker 1: treat you like terrorists. They are targeting Trump followers for
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four election.
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  Speaker 2: It's their memo. Listen to what Senata Cruz had about this.
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  Speaker 1: I also want to get your take on a headline
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  Speaker 1: that's really floaded while we've been taping this right now,
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  Speaker 1: and that deals with there is now intel that shows
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  Speaker 1: that Maga Republicans, Donald Trump's supporters, will be targeted by
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  Speaker 1: the FBI as the twenty twenty four election nears. Newsweek
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  Speaker 1: is now reporting on this and Biden to go back
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  Speaker 1: tweeted in September of last year, quote Donald Trump and
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  Speaker 1: Maga Republicans are a threat to the very soul of
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  Speaker 1: this country, the very soul of this country.
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  Speaker 2: Chris.
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  Speaker 1: FBI director chrispher Ray and sworn testimony, said it's not
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  Speaker 1: just Trump supporters. Early this year, he said, House Republicans say,
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  Speaker 1: the FBI document that they've obtained proved that several field
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  Speaker 1: offices contributed to a memo that targeted traditional Catholics. We
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  Speaker 1: talked about this extensively on this show as potential tarrists
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  Speaker 1: and tried to turn parishioners on their fellow church goers.
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  Speaker 1: So if you just look at the last year, parents
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  Speaker 1: who show up at school board meetings are to be
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  Speaker 1: labeled domestic terrorists. The FBI was spending time recruiting people
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  Speaker 1: in the Catholic church to spy on their friends and family.
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  Speaker 1: And now we are being told that heading into the
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four election, that if you are a Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump follower supporter, that you may be now monitored or
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  Speaker 1: targeted by the FBI.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's exactly right, and part of the challenge heare, like,
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  Speaker 4: for example, you focused on the FBI's targeting of traditional Catholics,
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  Speaker 4: which they rightly got enormous grief because they were talking
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  Speaker 4: about infiltrating Catholic churches and trying to get priests to
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  Speaker 4: spy on their parishioners and become FBI informants to inform
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  Speaker 4: on the members of their church. So initially the FBI said, oh,
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  Speaker 4: that was a rogue office down in Richmond, Virginia, it's
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  Speaker 4: not a broader problem. Now that they've admitted that it
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  Speaker 4: was multiple offices that participated in that this was a
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  Speaker 4: much broader effort to target traditional Catholics. And the same
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  Speaker 4: is true with the targeting of Donald Trump's supporters. You know,
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  Speaker 4: even this language, so you can tell someone did a
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  Speaker 4: focus group on the Democrat side and they discovered the
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  Speaker 4: phrase maga Republican. They're going to brand that that like
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  Speaker 4: magi by the way, maga Republican, and their definition they
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  Speaker 4: mean everybody. They literally mean every Republican is a maga Republican.
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  Speaker 4: And then they just think the word maga is really scary,
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  Speaker 4: and they claim that if you are a maga Republican
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  Speaker 4: is defined as a Republican who voted for Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, seventy five to eighty million Americans are defined,
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  Speaker 4: according to this White House as potential terrorists, as threats
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  Speaker 4: to democracy, and this is this, this is how Democrats
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  Speaker 4: have become radicalized. They now say, if you dare vote
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  Speaker 4: against Democrats, you are a threat to democracy. Just understand,
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  Speaker 4: every time Democrats use the word democracy, what they mean
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  Speaker 4: is me, I'm a Democrat. I want to get elected,
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  Speaker 4: and anything that stands in my way is a quote
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  Speaker 4: threat to democracy. They don't actually want that. They don't
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  Speaker 4: actually want real democracy if it elects Republicans. What they
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  Speaker 4: want is Democrats to be in power forever. And by
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  Speaker 4: the way, this is intimately connected to their lawlessness on
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  Speaker 4: the southern border, because the reason they've allowed seven point
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  Speaker 4: six million illegal immigrants into the country is because they
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  Speaker 4: want to subvert democracy by getting them to vote for
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  Speaker 4: Democrats and keep Democrats in power.
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  Speaker 1: Sinri I also think we should bring up in the
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  Speaker 1: Newsweek article, it says that if you voted for Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 1: the government will try.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's right. And in June of this year, the
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  Speaker 4: FBI and the Department of Homeland Security filed a joint
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  Speaker 4: report with Congress. And what they say in that joint
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  Speaker 4: report is they say, quote, threats from domestic violent extremists
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  Speaker 4: have increased in the last two years, and any further
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  Speaker 4: increases in threats likely will correspond to potential flash points
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  Speaker 4: such as high profile elections and campaigns or contentious current events.
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  Speaker 4: So they're saying terrorists are associated with high profile elections.
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  Speaker 4: And just to make sure there's no ambiguity that they're
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  Speaker 4: not talking about Antifa, they're not talking about left wing terrorists.
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  Speaker 4: They are focused on Republicans. Here's what the report concludes.
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  Speaker 4: Quote socio political developments such as narratives of fraud in
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  Speaker 4: the recent general election, conditions related to the COVID nineteen pandemic,
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  Speaker 4: and conspiracy theories promoting violence will almost certainly spur some
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  Speaker 4: domestic terrorists to try to engage in violence. Now, everything
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  Speaker 4: they list there they associate with Republicans. And notice they
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  Speaker 4: say COVID. So if you don't like lockdowns, you're a terrorist.
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  Speaker 4: If you don't like forced maskings, you're a terrorist. If
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  Speaker 4: you don't like vaccine mandates, you're a terrorist. If you're
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  Speaker 4: concerned about the potential health negative effects of forced vaccines,
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  Speaker 4: of the COVID vaccines, you're a terrorist. That is the narrative.
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  Speaker 4: Anyone that disagrees with the regime they now define as
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  Speaker 4: a violent extremist, and amazingly enough, left wing violence in
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  Speaker 4: their narrative doesn't exist. So Black Lives Matter, not a
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  Speaker 4: word about them, Antifa, not a word about them. The
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  Speaker 4: efforts targeting. Look, we've got now violent riots that are
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  Speaker 4: playing out right now in cities like Philadelphia, where they're
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  Speaker 4: ransacking and looting stores, where they're attacking police officers. That
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  Speaker 4: is not violent extremism. If you're a leftist, that's okay,
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  Speaker 4: that's wonderful, that is beautiful social protest to burn American cities.
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  Speaker 4: But yet, if if you're if you don't want to
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  Speaker 4: see America lockdown again on COVID, clearly you're a terrorist.
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  Speaker 1: Final question to you. I think we should give it.
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  Speaker 1: A quick update on that speakership and the House vote
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  Speaker 1: kind of risen to the top at this point. He
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  Speaker 1: said he's willing to be the speaker that would be
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  Speaker 1: And if you missed our interview with him, a two
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  Speaker 1: part series on the Hunter Byden Investigation, go back and
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  Speaker 1: listen to it.
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  Speaker 2: He's phenomenal on this issue.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about the timeline now of when we expect the
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  Speaker 1: House side to take this up of deciding again who's
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  Speaker 1: going to be the speaker.
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  Speaker 4: Well, my understanding is the House is going to vote
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  Speaker 4: on speaker next week and then I expect it to
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  Speaker 4: be a roller coaster ride. I mean, you remember, back
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  Speaker 4: in January, we had a roller coaster ride of over
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  Speaker 4: a dozen different ballots before Kevin McCarthy was elected Speaker,
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  Speaker 4: and it was very narrow. It may well be a
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  Speaker 4: similar battle at this point. There are several contenders that
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  Speaker 4: are talking about running. Two have announced publicly. One is
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  Speaker 4: Steve Scalise. Steve Scalise is the Majority Leader was Kevin
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  Speaker 4: McCarthy's number two. Steve is generally perceived to be more
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  Speaker 4: conservative than McCarthy, and so Steve is running as the
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  Speaker 4: candidate that can unify both the moderates in the Republican
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  Speaker 4: Conference and also some of the conservatives. A second candidate
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  Speaker 4: who's running, as you noted as Jim Jordan. Jim Jordan
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  Speaker 4: was one of the original founders of the Freedom Caucus.
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  Speaker 4: He is a prominent and well known conservative. The media
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  Speaker 4: is deeply skeptical of Jim Jordan, and they say he's
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  Speaker 4: too conservative to get elected and the moderates will never
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  Speaker 4: support him. I don't know if that's true or not.
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  Speaker 4: There is also discussion that Kevin Hearn, who is a
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  Speaker 4: Republican from Oklahoma, that he may run Kevin is a
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  Speaker 4: good man. It's not clear if he will, although there
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  Speaker 4: have been reports that he's telling other Republicans he's looking
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  Speaker 4: at the race seriously. And then there's been some chatter
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  Speaker 4: that Chip Roy might run. I don't know if Chip
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  Speaker 4: will run or not. At this point, neither Kevin nor
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  Speaker 4: Chip are in the race, But next week they might
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  Speaker 4: both be in the race. And I don't know if
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  Speaker 4: yet another Republican might jump in. So I think it
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  Speaker 4: will be vigorously contested. I'm sure there is a lot
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  Speaker 4: of horse trading going on right now. There's a lot
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  Speaker 4: of negotiations going on right now. Now. What's striking is
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  Speaker 4: that each of the potential candidates went and met with
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  Speaker 4: the Texas delegation. The reason they met with the Texas
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  Speaker 4: delegation is Texas is the largest contingent of House Republicans,
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  Speaker 4: and so you've got the biggest block of votes, particularly
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  Speaker 4: if the Texas Delegation votes together. It's not clear that
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  Speaker 4: they will, but they might, and so at this point
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what will happen. My intention is to
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  Speaker 4: stay out of it and to leave leadership elections to
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  Speaker 4: House Republicans. But the answer as to who comes out
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  Speaker 4: of it is going to matter quite a bit, and
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  Speaker 4: so we will certainly watch with interest and continue to
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  Speaker 4: provide the best analysis we can.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things I've heard over the last twenty
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  Speaker 1: four to forty eight hours center is there are people
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  Speaker 1: that love Jim Jordan, but they don't want to lose
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  Speaker 1: him on this investigation of Hunter Biden, and they're afraid
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  Speaker 1: that if he became the speak expertise, is that something
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  Speaker 1: that should be a concern or could he still continue
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  Speaker 1: to do both or have more powers of speak.
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  Speaker 4: Well, look, there's no doubt that the Speaker is by
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  Speaker 4: far the most powerful player in the House, and the
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  Speaker 4: Speaker of the House has enormous institutional authority. The questions
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  Speaker 4: of what is the best role for each of the
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  Speaker 4: Republicans in the House are going to be questions that
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  Speaker 4: that the House members are going to have to decide.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm sure if if that's a question being asked
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  Speaker 4: about Jim Jordan, I imagine Jim will be answering that
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  Speaker 4: question to his colleagues. And I expect a whole lot
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  Speaker 4: of conversations on between all the House Republicans throughout this
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  Speaker 4: weekend and throughout next week, and and my guess is
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  Speaker 4: we'll see multiple ballots uh and, and we'll see what
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  Speaker 4: ultimately comes up.