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MTG Resigns-Why & What it Means, plus Minnesota Taxpayers are the LARGEST Funders of Al-Shabaab Terrorists · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome in his verdict with Center Ted Kruz Ben Ferguson
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  Speaker 1: with it's signs to have you with us a Thanksgiving week,
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  Speaker 1: and we've got a lot to cover on this show
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  Speaker 1: today that you're not going to want to miss, including
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  Speaker 1: a moment of clarity I think for the Republican Party
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  Speaker 1: that deals with someone deciding I'm going to resign from Congress,
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  Speaker 1: Senator your reaction to Margie Taylor Green saying I'm out.
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  Speaker 2: Well. Marjorie Taylor Green announced she's going to resign from
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  Speaker 2: Congress in January. It's a big deal. She was a
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  Speaker 2: major player of the House representatives. Her views I think
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  Speaker 2: had gotten more and more extreme. President Trump had announced
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  Speaker 2: he was withdrawing his support from her because she had
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  Speaker 2: gotten so extreme. We're going to break that down. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to talk about why she's stepping down. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to talk about what it means. I think it's a
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  Speaker 2: consequential moment in the House and it's a consequential moment
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  Speaker 2: for the country. We're also going to talk about her
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  Speaker 2: a really astonishing story, which is welfare fraud by Somali's
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  Speaker 2: in Minnesota funneled millions of dollars of tax payer money
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  Speaker 2: to the Islamic terrorist organization Al Shabab. It really is
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  Speaker 2: a stunning, stunning story that's been reported and it shows
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  Speaker 2: the really pernicious things that we're seeing unfolding in our country.
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  Speaker 2: redistricting and what it means for control of the House
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  Speaker 1: All right, Senator, so let's start with Margie Taylor Green.
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  Speaker 1: I genuinely thought this was a great moment for conservatives,
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  Speaker 1: for the conservative movement, for the Republican Party watching her
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  Speaker 1: decide to resign. And the reason why I say that
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  Speaker 1: is because it gave me hope that we are so
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  Speaker 1: different than the Democratic Party. We police our own and
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  Speaker 1: we call out those that are about actors, unlike the
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  Speaker 1: Democratic Party that is not policed their party at all.
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  Speaker 1: Now that you're witnessing socialists getting elected in two major
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  Speaker 1: cities in this country, and radical leftists that have taken over,
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  Speaker 1: and yet we still seem to have a moment of
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  Speaker 1: clarity where I hold, on a second, this is not
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  Speaker 1: what we believe. I found it incredibly encouraging your reaction.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Ben, I think you make a good point if
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  Speaker 2: you look about and this is something I've been talking
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  Speaker 2: quite a bit about. Ten years ago on the Democrat Party,
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  Speaker 2: we saw anti semitism, radical extreme anti semitism rising on
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  Speaker 2: the Democrat Party, and Democrat leadership didn't do anything about it.
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  Speaker 2: They basically look the other direction. They said, gosh, this
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  Speaker 2: is a small fringe view, we don't need to worry
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  Speaker 2: about it. It'll be fine. And in the decade that followed,
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  Speaker 2: we have seen pro hamas consume the Democrat Party. Now
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  Speaker 2: you and I have talked about, and I've been talking
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  Speaker 2: publicly a lot about, I see the same thing potentially
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  Speaker 2: starting to happen on the right. I've seen more anti
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  Speaker 2: semitism in the last six months on the right that
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  Speaker 2: I've seen in my entire life. And my hope is
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  Speaker 2: the Republican Party doesn't make the mistakes that the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: did that we say enough is enough. No, And I'll
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  Speaker 2: tell you this is striking because if you look at
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  Speaker 2: in Republicans and the House of Representatives. The vast majority
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  Speaker 2: of elected Republicans in both the House and Senate are
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  Speaker 2: passionately pro Israel. They're supporters of the US Israel alliance
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  Speaker 2: and relationship. They understand the national security benefits of standing
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  Speaker 2: with Israel. They understand that when Israel is killing Hamas
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  Speaker 2: and hesbela terrorist, when Israel is taking out Iranian ier
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  Speaker 2: GC terrorists, that they're making America safer. They're a handful
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  Speaker 2: of House Republicans who become more and more vocal as
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  Speaker 2: voices for being anti Israel. Marjorie Taylor Green was on
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  Speaker 2: the front of that list. In fact, the leading to
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  Speaker 2: House Republicans who had become vocal anti Israel voices were
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  Speaker 2: Marjorie Taylor Green and Matt Gates. And I do think
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  Speaker 2: it's striking that Marjorie Taylor Green and Matt Gates very
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  Speaker 2: soon neither one of them is going to be in
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  Speaker 2: the House. Matt Gates already resigned and Green announced that
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  Speaker 2: she's going to resign in January. And I think that's
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  Speaker 2: really that is a powerful statement. Yet, you ought to
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  Speaker 2: ask yourself why didn't AOC resign, Why didn't ilhan Omar resign.
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  Speaker 2: Why didn't Rashida Tali resign? Why didn't the radicals and
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  Speaker 2: the Democrat Party resign? And it's because their leadership fundamentally
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  Speaker 2: was weak. And I want to commend Donald Trump. If
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  Speaker 2: there's one person who is most responsible for Marjorie Taylor
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  Speaker 2: Green resigning, it is j Trump. Here's what he put
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  Speaker 2: out on truth Social quote. I am withdrawing my support
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  Speaker 2: and endorsement of quote unquote, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green of
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  Speaker 2: the Great State of Georgia over the past few weeks,
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  Speaker 2: despite my creating record achievements for our country, including a
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  Speaker 2: total and complete victory on the shutdown, closed borders, low taxes,
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  Speaker 2: no men and women's sports or transgender for everyone, ending DEI,
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  Speaker 2: stopping Biden's record setting inflation, biggest regulation cuts in history,
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  Speaker 2: stopping eight wars, rebuilding our military, being highly respected by
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  Speaker 2: every country in the world as opposed to being the
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  Speaker 2: laughingstock that we were just twelve months ago, having trillions
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  Speaker 2: of dollars record setting invested in the USA, and having
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  Speaker 2: created the hottest country anywhere in the world from being
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  Speaker 2: a dead country just twelve months ago, and so much more.
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  Speaker 2: All I see wacky Marjorie, do is complain? Complain? Complain?
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  Speaker 2: It seemed to all begin when I sent her a
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  Speaker 2: poll stating that she should not run for senator or governor.
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  Speaker 2: She was at twelve percent and didn't have a chance unless,
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  Speaker 2: of course, she had my endorsement, which she wasn't about
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  Speaker 2: to get. Now, look, when Trump said that that he
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  Speaker 2: was going to oppose her, it changed the dynas significantly,
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  Speaker 2: And it changes so much that she put out a
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  Speaker 2: statement this past week saying she's done. She's resigning in January.
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  Speaker 2: She's withdrawing from the Congress. And listen, Marjorie Taylor Green.
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  Speaker 2: She got elected five years ago. She's not been in
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  Speaker 2: the House very long. She is a loud voice. She
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  Speaker 2: used to be maybe the single loudest voice pro Trump,
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  Speaker 2: and we saw her and it actually, I think it's
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  Speaker 2: a cautionary tale about when you embrace anti Semitic views,
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  Speaker 2: anti Israel views, you quickly start down a slippery slope.
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  Speaker 2: Where she began attacking Donald Trump, she began attacking capitalism.
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  Speaker 2: She began attacking much like Tucker Carlson attacking who America is.
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  Speaker 2: She went on the View and had a love fest
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  Speaker 2: with the left wing host on the views she was
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  Speaker 2: arguing for expanding and extending the Obamacare subsidies. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it really was a good example that once you start
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  Speaker 2: down that road, all of the rest of conservatism goes
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  Speaker 2: out the window as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a moment where I was genuinely proud
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  Speaker 1: to be a conservative, also a Trump supporter, and I
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  Speaker 1: loved the fact that President was this blunt about it.
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  Speaker 1: Because if you don't have moral clarity on issues like
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  Speaker 1: anti semitism, so goes your party. And we've seen what happens,
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  Speaker 1: and the Democrats are a cautionary tale. The most radical
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  Speaker 1: of the radicals in this country are now within the
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  Speaker 1: Democratic Party, and many of them are leading the Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 1: And I worry that we could go down that road
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  Speaker 1: if we didn't start policing our own and making sure
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  Speaker 1: especially those that become radical and anti Semites were not
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  Speaker 1: police better. I think the other part about this is
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  Speaker 1: not only is she going to be out of Congress,
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  Speaker 1: but her voice is going to disappear, I believe, from
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  Speaker 1: the conservative movement as well in a major way. And
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  Speaker 1: that also is a consequence, whereas many times Democrats is
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  Speaker 1: a complete opposite of that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know that it'll disappear. I actually think
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  Speaker 2: she may be similar to Matt Gates, where they both
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  Speaker 2: will continue to espouse whackier and whackier views, views that
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  Speaker 2: are more and more out of the mainstream of Republicans
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  Speaker 2: and conservatives. But I do think it will be a
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  Speaker 2: much smaller platform. And you know, Ben, I actually talked
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  Speaker 2: to President Trump about it this weekend. He called me
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  Speaker 2: Friday night and we spent probably fifteen twenty minutes on
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  Speaker 2: the phone. We were talking about lots of different things,
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  Speaker 2: but one of the things just as we were making
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  Speaker 2: conversations about, I don't know, eleven o'clock at night Friday night,
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  Speaker 2: and I said, miss President, were you surprised that Marjor
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  Speaker 2: Taylor Green stepped down? And he sort of laughed and said, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't surprised at all. And he mentioned he said
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  Speaker 2: he said she was mad because he said she would
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  Speaker 2: call him once twice, three times a week and he
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  Speaker 2: wasn't calling her back all the time. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: he said, look, I've got fifty three Senate Republicublicans, I've
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  Speaker 2: got two hundred and nineteen House Republicans. I've got a
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  Speaker 2: couple one hundred leaders of countries across the world, and
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  Speaker 2: I sort of laughed. I said, yeah, look, you're a
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  Speaker 2: very very busy man. And to be honest, I don't
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  Speaker 2: call Trump all that off. And I probably talked to Trump,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, every two weeks, i'd say on average,
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  Speaker 2: but I try not to. Some of my colleagues call
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  Speaker 2: him a lot. And you know, I told him, I said, look,
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  Speaker 2: you're a busy man. I try not to bother you,
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  Speaker 2: just to like call, to tug on your shirts, leave
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  Speaker 2: and say, you know, high, high high, Like I try
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  Speaker 2: to call when I've got a purpose, I've got an objective,
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  Speaker 2: I've got a decision that I think is important, something
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  Speaker 2: we need to get done. But it was interesting. He
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  Speaker 2: said she was calling him several times a week and
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  Speaker 2: it was just too much. And you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: his withdrawing his support from her is what caused her
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  Speaker 2: to drop out. And I'm glad of that. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I do think it shows Republicans being willing to say
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  Speaker 2: we're not going to embrace the radicals, and in a
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  Speaker 2: Democrats have done that in modern history.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it really is.
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  Speaker 1: And I hope this also is a cautious shot across
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  Speaker 1: people that voted for President Trump because they wanted there
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  Speaker 1: to be clarity on waste fraud and abuse in our government.
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  Speaker 3: It's what DOGE was created around.
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  Speaker 1: the largest funder of Al Shabab turns out to be
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is a story that's really at the intersection
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  Speaker 2: for waste, fraud and abuse in government, and we see
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  Speaker 2: that at the federal government, we see that at the
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  Speaker 2: state level, particularly in big blue states. But secondly, the
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  Speaker 2: rise of radical Islam in America, and it's dangerous, it
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  Speaker 2: is threatening our liberty, and it is spreading. It's spreading
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  Speaker 2: often with the enthusiastic cheerleading of Democrat elected officials. This
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  Speaker 2: story is right at the intersection of both of them.
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  Speaker 2: And so the City Journal reported I'm just going to
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  Speaker 2: read a portion of this article because it really is
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  Speaker 2: it's a stunning report, and it begins. The largest funder
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  Speaker 2: of Al Shabab is the Minnesota taxpayer. How some of
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  Speaker 2: the state's welfare funds ended up in the hands of
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  Speaker 2: a terror group. Minnesota is drowning and fraud. Billions in
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  Speaker 2: taxpayer dollars have been stolen during the administration of Governor
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  Speaker 2: Tim Waltz alone. Of course, Tim Waltz was Kamala Harris's
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  Speaker 2: nominated BVP Democrat. State officials overseeing one of the most
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  Speaker 2: generous welfare regimes in the country are asleep at the switch,
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  Speaker 2: and the media, duty bound by progressive pietes, refuse to
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  Speaker 2: connect the dots. In many cases, the fraud has allegedly
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  Speaker 2: been perpetrated by members of the Minnesota sizable Somali community.
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  Speaker 2: Federal counter terrorism support sources confirm that millions of dollars
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  Speaker 2: millions in stolen funds had been sent back to Somalia,
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  Speaker 2: where they ultimately landed in the hands of the terror
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  Speaker 2: group Al Schebab. One confidential source put it quote, the
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  Speaker 2: largest funder of al Chebab is the Minnesota taxpayer. Our
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  Speaker 2: investigation shows what happens when a tribal mindset meets a
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  Speaker 2: bleeding heart bureaucracy. When imported clan loyalties collide with a
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  Speaker 2: political class too timid to offend, and when accusations of
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  Speaker 2: racism are cynically deployed to shield criminal behavior, the predictable
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  Speaker 2: result is graft, with taxpayers left to foot the bill.
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  Speaker 2: If you were designed to design a welfare program to
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: facilitate fraud, it would probably look a lot like Minnesota's
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services Program. The HHS program, the first
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: of its kind in the country, was launched with the
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: noble goal to help seniors, addicts that disabled in the
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: mentally ill secure housing. It was designed with quote low
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: barriers to entry and quote minimal requirements for reimbursement. Nonetheless,
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: before the program went live in twenty twenty, officials pegged
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: its annual estimated price tag at two point six million dollars.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Cost quickly spiraled out of control. In twenty twenty one,
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: the program paid out more than twenty one million dollars.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: By the way, it was projected to be two point
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: six million. In the following year, annual costs shot up
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: to forty two million, then seventy four million, then one
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: hundred and four million. On August first, Minnesota's Department of
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Human Services moved to scrap the HHS program, noting that
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: payment to seventy seven housing stabilization providers had terminated this
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: year due to credible allegations of fraud. Joe Thompson, then
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: the acting US Attorney for the District of Minnesota, when
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: even further saying the vast majority let me repeat that
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: the vast majority of the HHS program was fraudulent. On
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: September eighteenth, Thompson announced criminal indictments for HHS fraud against
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Maktar Hassan, Aiden, Mustafa Daibe, by Lee, Khalid, Ahmed daib
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Ab de Fita, Mohammed Mohammad, Christopher Adisoli Falat. By the way, Ben,
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: you try to go through those names, Yeah.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: I'm going to pass on that. Great job. I give
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: you a B plus on that.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Okay, six of whom, according to the US Attorney's office,
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: are members of Minnesota Somali community. Thompson made clear this
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: is the first round of charges for HSS fraud that
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: his office will be prosecuting most of these cases. Unlike
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: a lot of Medicare fraud, medicaid fraud nationally aren't just
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: overbilling Thompson said to press conference announcing the indictments. These
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: are often just purely fictitious companies solely created to defraud
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: the system, and that's unique in the extent to which
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: we have that here in Minnesota. Thompson said, many of
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: the firms enrolled in the program operated out of dilapidated
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: storefronts or run down office buildings. The perpetrators often targeted
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: people recently released from rehab, signed them up for Medicaid
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: services they had no intention of providing. He noted many
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: of the owners of companies engaged in HHS fraud had
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: other companies through which they built other Medicaid programs, such
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: as the EIDBI Autism program, the Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Services Program, the Integrated Community Services Program, the Community Access
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: for Disability Inclusion Program PCA Services, and other Medicaid waivers services.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: What we see are schemes stacked upon schemes, draining resources
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: meant for those most in needs. It feels never ending.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: I have spent my career as a fraud prosecutor, and
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: the depth of the fraud in Minnesota takes my breath away.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: You read that and you just think about how much
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: money this is that not only was stolen from the taxpayers,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: and they go into how much it kept growing and
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: growing and growing these programs. But it's obvious that people
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: knew there was fraud. Then you find out it's going
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: to a terrorist organization, and so we're funding the terrorist organization.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: How the hell do people not go to jail for this?
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Well they are a number of people are being prosecuted.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: But you know what is striking is not just was
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: their massive fraud, but the massive fraud was funding terrorism.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Here's what the City Journal continues saying. Perhaps the most
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: surprising aspect of the Somali fraud story is the scale,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: with total costs running into the billions of taxpayer dollars.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: That raises the question what happened to all that money?
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: The Somali fraud rings have sent huge sums and remittances
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: or money transfers from Minnesota to Somalia, according to reports,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: and estimated forty percent of households in Somalia get remittances
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: from abroad. In twenty twenty three alone, the Somali diaspora
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: sent back one point seven billion dollars, more than the
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Somali government's budget for that year. Our investigation reveals for
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: the first time that some of this money has been
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: directed to an even more troubling destination, the al Qaeda
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: linked Islamic terror group Al Schebab. According to multiple law
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: enforcement sources, Minnesota's Somali community has sent untold millions through
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: a network of Hualas, informal clan based money traders that
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: have wound up in the coffers of Al Schebab. According
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: to Glenn Kerns, a retired Seattle Police Department detective who
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: spent fourteen years on a federal Joint terrorism task force,
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: the Somalis ran a sophisticated money network spanning from Seattle
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: to Minneapolis, and we're routing significant amounts of cash on
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: commercial flights from the Seattle airport to the Juala networks
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: in Somalia. One of these networks, Kerns discovered, sent twenty
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: million dollars abroad in a single year. So this is
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: money that's coming from the Minnesota taxpayers. It is going
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: through the Somalia Somali community in Minnesota back to Somalia
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: on the order of magnitude of one point seven billion
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: dollars a year, and millions of those dollars were flowing
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: directly to al Shabab and al Kaita linked major terrorist organization,
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: that this is tragic, it is shocking. And by the way,
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: I'm curious, have you seen it on CNN, no, NBCCBS.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Nope, none of them, none of them touching.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: It, MSNBC, no, Washington Post, New York Times, Nope. You
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: would think that would be news.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: I also look at the amount of money and how
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: quickly it grew. That's something else that I do think
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: is interesting. Here is how I mean you want to
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: talk about warning signs center, there was clear warning signs,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: like very very clear warning signs that this was happening,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: and yet no one in government seemed to stop paw
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: or ask a question. That part also to me is
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: just like is it always unlimited funds?
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Is that how it's now? In government?
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: And whatever you start just keep making it grow and
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: double and trip win size year after year after year
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: and spending and and no one's like, hold on a second,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: this doesn't add up this many kids with autism that
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: doesn't seem normal. Well, how much it went doubled from
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: last year the year before the year before that. I mean,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: there's a clear line here of like red flags that
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: no one seemed.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: To care about well.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: And it's worth remembering Tim Waltz is not someone at
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: the fringe of the Democrat Party. Tim Waltz is who
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Kamala Harris thought should be vice President of the United States.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Presumably Kamala thought that she should he should succeed her
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: and become the President of the United States. And Tim
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Waltz like like many Democrats, but what Waltzes is worse
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: than many of them just look the other way, just
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: turned a blind eye. And one combination, it's a combination
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: of a number of factors. One piece of it is
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: just the left wing view that the more money you're
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: giving way and welfare the better, and so it doesn't
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: matter how much it grows. If you're giving a million
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: dollars this year, they wanted to be two million, then four,
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: then six, then eight and twelve. They want it to
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: grow without any any consideration about number one, bankrupting the
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: state and the taxpayers. But number two about the impact
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: of spending all that money trapping people in dependency. But
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: a second component of it, it's not just dependency. Dependency
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: assumes someone's actually getting well for payments. It is also
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: bleatant fraud and there is unfortunately a network of corruption
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: where many of those engage in fraud are also writing
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: checks to elect Democrats. And if you look at the
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Somali community in Minnesota, it is a major voting network
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: that votes for Democrats in Minnesota. And so at the
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: end of the day, the Democrats, when it comes to
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: buying votes, shoveling this cash into this maw of fraud,
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: even though the taxpayers were being robbed and the money
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: was going to a radical Islamic terrorist organization. If you're
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: a Democrat, it made political sense on some level because
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: you got money and you got votes. And it is
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: astonishing that there's not do you know a single Democrat
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: denouncing this. No, I mean that's a striking thing.
• 26:18
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• 26:21
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  Speaker 1: it's a victory update and it deals with Texas redistricting.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: It's set off a firefight with California, Gavin Newsom getting
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: involved in them doing some just unbelievable jerrymandering of the
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: map out in California. They claimed it was in retaliation
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: for what Texas was doing. Then Democrats went after Texas
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: and try to stop it. And now we have Justice Alito,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: who is involved at the Spring Court level. Give this
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: update about the Texas redistricting fight.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Well, as everyone knows, President Trump has asked state legislatures
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Republican legislatures to redraw the map to elect more Republicans
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: to the House. A significant reason for that is that
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: there is right now an imbalance. Democrats have gerrymandered the
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: living daylights out of blue state. So blue states send
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: an overwhelming majority of their delegation to be Democrats despite
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: the votes of their citizens. And let me give you
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: some specific numbers. So Texas right now has thirty eight
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: congressional seats. Right now, Republicans have twenty five of those,
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: Democrats have thirteen. That means the percentage of Republicans in
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: the delegation today is right about sixty six percent. Now,
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: about fifty six percent of the state voted voted for Trump,
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: a little more than fifty six percent, so the current
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: delegation is slightly more than the statewide vote for Trump,
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: but not much. The state legislate redrew the map, so
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: instead of electing twenty five Republicans, the new map is
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: expected to elect thirty Republicans to add five new Republicans. Now,
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: under that new map, it will increase. Assuming those thirty
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Republicans win, it would increase the percentage of Republicans from
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: sixty six percent to seventy nine percent. Now seventy nine
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: percent is a larger portion. How does that compare it
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: to Democrat states? California under their old map, eighty three
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: percent of the delegation is Democrat. Illinois eighty two percent,
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Oregon eighty four percent, Washington State eighty percent, Maryland eighty
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: eight percent. Massachusetts there are nine congressional seats. You know
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: how many Republicans are elected out of Massachusetts?
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: How many?
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: Zero goosey? One hundred percent of the Massachusetts delegation is Democrat. Connecticut,
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: same thing, one hundred percent. Texas went from sixty six
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: to seventy nine percent, still less than California. And what
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: did California do in response? Increased it from eighty three
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: percent to ninety two percent, dramatically jerrymandering its map. Now
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: what happened next is, of course, there was a lawsuit.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: There's always a lawsuit when this happens, and a federal
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: district court. It's a three judge court. So it's two
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: district judges at a Federal Court of Appeals judge, which
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: is a it's a weird statutory creation that exists in
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: redistricting litigation. That court just over a week ago struck
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: down the Texas map and it ordered that instead of
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: being under the new map that would likely add five
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: new Republicans, to go back to the old map that
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: would not add five new Republicans. If that order stays
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: in place, the likely impact of redistricting is the Democrats
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: retake the House. I mean it would flip the House.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: It was a very consequential decision. This was a two
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: to one decision. It was authored by a federal district judge,
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Jeff Brown, who was a Republican nominated by Trump, joined
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: by a Democrat district judge, and there was a descent
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: from Jerry Smith. Now who is Jerry Smith. Jerry Smith
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: is the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals judge that's on
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: this panel. I know Jerry Smith very well. He is
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: one of the two most longstanding, most well respected conservatives
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: on the Fifth Circuit. Jerry Smith and Edith Jones have
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: long been the conservative warriors on the Fifth Circuit. I
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: got to tell you, Jerry Smith wrote a descent in
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: this case. Ben, I've probably read a thousand descents in
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: my life. I've never read a descent like Jerry Smith's descent.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: He just onloaded on the majority opinion. He just eviscerated
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: it as unprincipled, as political, as partisan, as wrong. That dissent.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, you literally read it, and you ought to
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: google and read it because you've never read a judicial
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: opinion like this. Well, what happened on appeal is, initially
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: the appeal for a stay went up to Justice sam
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: Alito was the individual Circuit justice sitting over the Fifth Circuit,
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: and he stayed the opinion of the District Court. So
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: right now as we're talking, the District Court's stay will
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: not go into effect, which means, as of right now,
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: the new map stays in effect. Now we may get
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: a decision this week. It's possible the Supreme Court allows
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: the District Court opinion to go into effect, which would
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: mean the old map would stay at effect. My prediction
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: is this District Court opinion will be stayed. It will
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: be stayed through the election. We will stay with the
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: new map that the legislature has drawn, and I think
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: this District court opinion is going to be reversed on appeal.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: It is a big, big deal because this outcome, the
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: Court's not throwing out the map that the legislature adopted,
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: could very well determine whether the House Representatives in twenty
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: twenty seven is Republican or Democrat. And so I'm very
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: glad the Supreme Court stayed this decision.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: It really is a big one and another victory for
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: rule of law and getting rid of so many activists
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: that are trying to stop the way that the business
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: is supposed to work. And that's what Democrats have been
• 33:12
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• 33:14
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