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Trump says "YOU'RE FIRED" to Countless Woke Government Employees · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: We have got a lot to talk about on today's show,
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Speaker 1: including Donald Trump really paying off on the promises he
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Speaker 1: made to secure the southern border, with a litany of
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Speaker 1: actions being taken to make sure that the southern border
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Speaker 1: is secure and shut down. I'm gonna explain that to
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Speaker 1: you coming up in a moment. We also have what
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Speaker 1: I'm describing as Black Tuesday, the day where Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: said to a lot of government bureaucrats, you're fired, including
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Speaker 1: the heads of the TSA, the Coastguard as well. What's
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Speaker 1: behind it? That story for you as well coming up.
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Speaker 1: And finally, Donald Trump has decided to save you a
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Speaker 1: lot of money, signing an executive order suspending US foreign
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Speaker 1: eight assistants for ninety days. Now, with all that, let's
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Speaker 1: get back to what I mentioned at the very beginning.
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump is paying off on his promise to secure
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Speaker 1: the southern border. On January the twenty first, President Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump signed several executive orders aimed at strengthening border security. Now,
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Speaker 1: these were all because of promises that he made on
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Speaker 1: the campaign trail. Well, he is now keeping those promises
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Speaker 1: and turning them into a reality for each and every American.
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Speaker 1: So what has happened so far. I want you to
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Speaker 1: know the list so you understand because many in the
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Speaker 1: media are not wanting to talk about this at all.
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Speaker 1: The National Emergency Declaration has been signed by Donald Trump.
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Speaker 1: What does that mean. It declares a national emergency at
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Speaker 1: the US Mexico border that enables the deployment of federal
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Speaker 1: troops to assist in border enforcement. This is a very
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Speaker 1: important tool that the President is using right now to
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Speaker 1: shut down the southern border. He also made good on
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Speaker 1: another promise, the Remain in Mexico policy, reinstating the policy
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Speaker 1: that would require asylum seekers legal immigrants to wait in
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Speaker 1: Mexico during US immigration proceedings. That is a one to
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Speaker 1: eighty from what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris did, which
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Speaker 1: would allow for each and every illegal immigrant that comes
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Speaker 1: across the southern border, even if they're turning themselves in
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Speaker 1: to those at the border they're supposed to be protecting it,
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Speaker 1: saying oh yeah, go free in America. Well, that policy
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Speaker 1: is no more. The Remain of Mexico policy is now
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Speaker 1: back into effect and being enforced at this hour. Now.
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Speaker 1: You may remember that Donald Trump became president back in
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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. Many believe because of one major issue, one
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Speaker 1: major thing that kind of catapulted his campaign. It was
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Speaker 1: when he said We're gonna build a wall, a big,
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Speaker 1: beautiful wall, and he said at the time that Mexico
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Speaker 1: was gonna pay for it. Now, you can argue and
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Speaker 1: debate over that, but what we know now is that
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Speaker 1: the border wall construction will be resuming and will be finished.
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Speaker 1: That's right. Through an executive order, Donald Trump demanded the
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Speaker 1: resumption and the completion of the border wall along the
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Speaker 1: southern border as soon as humanly possible. Now, there's also
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Speaker 1: a big fight that is about to happen, and it
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Speaker 1: deals with birthright citizenship. And I want you to understand
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Speaker 1: the argument here. Yes, there is the fourteenth Amendment. Yes,
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Speaker 1: the fourteenth Amendment states very clearly that if you are
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Speaker 1: born in the United States of America, you are an
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Speaker 1: American citizen. The President wants to have a debate on
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Speaker 1: that issue. So that is why he has decided, and
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Speaker 1: he knows a legal challenge is coming that we are
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Speaker 1: going to have, as he described with the termination of
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Speaker 1: birthright citizenship, specifically if you are born in the US
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Speaker 1: to illegal immigrant parents. Now, this move is going to
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Speaker 1: face legal challenges. They know this at the White House.
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Speaker 1: I don't actually believe they expect they're going to win this.
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Speaker 1: But what they're trying to do is open a national
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Speaker 1: conversation about this loophole where many illegal immigrants, days before
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Speaker 1: they're about to give birth rush the southern border, have
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Speaker 1: a child in the US and they are an American citizen.
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Speaker 1: But what it also does it allows then for the
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Speaker 1: illegal immigrant parents to have a sponsor, a family member
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Speaker 1: who is an American citizenship to get them into the
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Speaker 1: US and to get them citizenship. This is a loophole
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Speaker 1: that Donald Trump wants to have some sort of fix on,
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Speaker 1: and now he's going to get that Grand debate. There's
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Speaker 1: also something else the Democrats use, and it was an app.
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Speaker 1: It was the most powerful app, many believe, in the
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Speaker 1: world because it gave access to the United States of
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Speaker 1: America for millions and millions of illegal immigrants. You may
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Speaker 1: have heard of this app before. It was the CBP
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Speaker 1: one app. Donald Trump has now moved to disable the
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Speaker 1: CBP one app, which allows migrants to schedule quote legal
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Speaker 1: entry appointments, resulting in cancelations now for hundreds of thousands
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Speaker 1: of applicants. Donald Trump saying we're not playing that game
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Speaker 1: any longer. And then, in the biggest move so far
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Speaker 1: in my opinion, is this, Donald Trump moved to designate
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Speaker 1: the Cartels as terrorists organizations. Not only has he classified
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Speaker 1: the Cartells as terrorist organizations, but he's also lumped into
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Speaker 1: this gang such as MS thirteen, as foreign terrorist organizations
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Speaker 1: as well. Now, what does this do well, it allows
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Speaker 1: for much more aggressive actions against these groups, including using
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Speaker 1: the US military. The question everybody has been asking now
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Speaker 1: is would we actually see the US military go into
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Speaker 1: what many are describing as a failed state, into Mexico
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Speaker 1: where the Cartels and MS thirteen gang members run the government,
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Speaker 1: and going after them and taking them out. It's too
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Speaker 1: soon to tell exactly what the President's going to do
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Speaker 1: and declare that they are terrorist organizations what that would
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Speaker 1: mean for moving against the Cartels outside of the United
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Speaker 1: States of America. What is obvious is the President right
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Speaker 1: now is looking for every tool at his disposal to
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Speaker 1: do whatever he can to protect and defend our borders
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Speaker 1: and American citizens. Now. The ICE director is also out
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Speaker 1: on TV talking a lot about what their plans are,
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Speaker 1: including deportation operations that have already begun in the US.
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Speaker 1: Tom Homan was on Fox News Channel and here's what
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Speaker 1: he said.
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Speaker 2: President Trump signing a stack of executive orders yesterday, making
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Speaker 2: good in a major campaign promise tackling illegal immigration. Let's
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Speaker 2: bringing the new borders are to the president. Tom Humman
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Speaker 2: also the former acting ICE director. So, Tom, we were expecting,
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Speaker 2: based on your initial schedule, that today roundups of criminal
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Speaker 2: illegal aliens in the process of deporting them would begin.
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Speaker 2: It seems to have been put on hold for a
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Speaker 2: little while. When can we expect that to happen? Where
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Speaker 2: will it begin?
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Speaker 3: No?
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Speaker 4: I started, I started. Teams are out there as of today.
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Speaker 4: We gave them in direction to prioritize public safety threats
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Speaker 4: that we're looking for that we've been working on the
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Speaker 4: target list. There was some discussion about Chicago because the
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Speaker 4: Pacific Operational Plan was released, so we had to look
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Speaker 4: at and reevaluate does this raise after safety concerns? And
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Speaker 4: it does. But we've address that and teams are all
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Speaker 4: the effective today.
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Speaker 2: So critics were saying, Okay, you're going to route up
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Speaker 2: people's at Buila, their grandmother and ship them back to
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Speaker 2: where they emigrated from. Who are the people that you're targeting.
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Speaker 4: At least in this initial phase right, are the gays
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Speaker 4: public safety threats those who are in a country legal
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Speaker 4: that's been convict to arrested for a serious crime. But
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Speaker 4: let me be clear, it's not any public safety threats
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Speaker 4: that will be arrested because of sanctuary cities. We're not
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Speaker 4: allowed to get that public safety threat into jail, which
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Speaker 4: means we got to go to the neighborhood and find him,
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Speaker 4: and when we find him, he may be with others.
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Speaker 4: And unlike the last administration, we're not going to tall
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Speaker 4: officers not to arrest in the illegalanding. So if they
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Speaker 4: find others, they'll be arrested. So Sanctuary city is going
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Speaker 4: to get exactly what they don't want, more agents in
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Speaker 4: the neighborhood and more claud arrests.
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Speaker 2: President Trump's oe number of executive orders, as we pointed
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Speaker 2: out on illegal immigration. Here's what he signed. He signed.
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Speaker 2: He declared a national border emergency, ended birthright citizenship, ended
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Speaker 2: catch and release, reinstated remain in Mexico, designated cartels as
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Speaker 2: foreign terrorist organizations, deployed active troops to the southern border,
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Speaker 2: and end the use of the CBP one app, which
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Speaker 2: many people were using to schedule interviews to claim asylum.
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Speaker 2: Here in the United States. So I want to take
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Speaker 2: a couple of those. But let's first of all go
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Speaker 2: with this idea of ending birthright citizenship. It's enshrined in
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Speaker 2: the fourteenth Amendment. How with an executive order can the
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Speaker 2: president change that?
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Speaker 4: Well, first of all, President Trum's a game changer. One
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Speaker 4: of the executive orders we worked on, and these are
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Speaker 4: game change. This is going to give us some more
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Speaker 4: secure border in my lifetime. So great for him to
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Speaker 4: do that. Birthright citizenship is a major driver of bill. Look, AGray,
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Speaker 4: I know from you. I've done this over three decades.
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Speaker 4: When the first thing is they and doesn't they get
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Speaker 4: here is get birth to you as citizen childcause I think
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Speaker 4: that makes hi immune from our laws. Right, So even
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Speaker 4: if he goes to immigration court, loses his case, even
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Speaker 4: though he's in the country league he's convicted of a
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Speaker 4: crime and get to order removal. They think that the
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Speaker 4: fact have you assistant child make immune. We can't send
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Speaker 4: that message to the whole world that you can enter
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Speaker 4: our country legalis's crime. You commit another crime, and you
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Speaker 4: can even get removed by an immigration judge after expensive
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Speaker 4: due process. But if you have your citizen child, you're
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Speaker 4: off the hook. We can't send that matches. We'll never
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Speaker 4: fix the more.
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Speaker 2: But the fourteenth Amendment does not differentiate between somebody who's
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Speaker 2: in this country legally or illegal.
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Speaker 4: I'm not attorney, but I don't think the fourteen memine
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Speaker 4: tryings ads at all. We have just as many legal scholars,
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Speaker 4: constitutional scholars say, doesn't really say that. So what President
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Speaker 4: Trump is taking that action will let Supreme Court decide.
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Speaker 1: I love how Tom Homan is making it clear we
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Speaker 1: want this debate. This was a very clear political decision
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Speaker 1: by Donald Trump for this debate to happen. There are
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Speaker 1: many legal scholars that say he's going to lose, but
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Speaker 1: it's obvious that the White House wants us to be
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Speaker 1: a grand debate, and that is exactly what they are
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Speaker 1: going to get all the way at the Supreme Court.
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump also has made it clear that he is
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Speaker 1: going to get the right people into his government to
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Speaker 1: help him on issues like securing the border. He's also
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Speaker 1: going to get rid of many of the woke people
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Speaker 1: that were appointed by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Well.
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Speaker 1: The mantra for Tuesday was you're fired the head of
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Speaker 1: the TSA and the Coastguard were fired on Trump's first
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Speaker 1: full day in office. Trump moved quickly to remake, as
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Speaker 1: he described it, the Department of Homeland Security, firing the
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Speaker 1: heads of the Transportation Security Administration and the Coastguard before
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Speaker 1: their terms were up, and eliminated all the members of
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Speaker 1: a key aviation security advisory group as well, calling the
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Speaker 1: system out bloated and not working with Donald Trump and
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Speaker 1: his vision for his administration. Now, the media, of course
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Speaker 1: they lost their mind. You should not be concerned because
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Speaker 1: this is exactly what should happen when you are elected.
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Speaker 1: You get to pick who you want to come in
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Speaker 1: and to actually lead under your leadership. And the last
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Speaker 1: thing you want and Donald Trump learned this the last time,
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Speaker 1: was having people that act like they're loyal to the
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Speaker 1: president and loyal to your mission, who really are just
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Speaker 1: flat out lying to you the entire time and undermining
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Speaker 1: and not doing what your job is. And if Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump's job is to get the right people pro conservatives
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Speaker 1: in these office places, well he's moving extremely fast to
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Speaker 1: make sure he learns from his mistakes. Back in twenty sixteen,
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump also ordered all federal Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
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Speaker 1: employees placed on paid leave starting Wednesday by five o'clock.
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Speaker 1: That's right. The Trump administration directing the government agencies to
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Speaker 1: draw plans for firing workers in all DEI roles and
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Speaker 1: to close every single DEI office within the government agencies.
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Speaker 1: The memo issued Tuesday to heads of departments of the
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Speaker 1: US government and agencies. The US government set that deadline
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Speaker 1: of no later than five pm Wednesday to inform the
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Speaker 1: employees that they will be put on paid administrative leave
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Speaker 1: as the agencies prepare to close all DEI related offices
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Speaker 1: and programs and to remove all websites and social media
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Speaker 1: accounts for such offices. It also asks federal agencies to
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Speaker 1: submit a written plan by January the thirty first for
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Speaker 1: dismissing these employees now. President Trump signed that executive order Monday,
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Speaker 1: inning radical and wasteful quote unquote diversity, equity and inclusion
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Speaker 1: programs in the federal agencies, with DEI offices and programs
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Speaker 1: being ordered to shut down. New White House press singer
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Speaker 1: Terry Caroline Levitt said in a statement Tuesday night, this
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Speaker 1: is another win for Americans of all races, religions, and creeds.
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Speaker 1: This is another example of Donald Trump making a promise
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Speaker 1: and keeping it. President Trump campaigned on ending the DEI
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Speaker 1: of our federal government in returning America to a merit
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Speaker 1: based society where people are hired based on their skills,
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Speaker 1: she said, not for the color of their skin. Now,
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Speaker 1: it is not clear how many employees will be affected.
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Speaker 1: The White House did not immediately respond to request for
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Speaker 1: comment on that. But what the President made clear is
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Speaker 1: that this was an executive order that he knew the
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Speaker 1: American people wanted. Now, the left has become obsessed with DEI.
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Speaker 1: In fact, DEI has infiltrated virtually every aspect of our government,
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Speaker 1: including the Pentagon pete Headseth was asked about the DEI
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Speaker 1: policies and what it's doing to the readiness of our
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Speaker 1: military and is it helping or dividing troops. Here's what
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Speaker 1: he had to say to his confirmation hearing.
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Speaker 5: I've written publicly that DII policy or distraction and have
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Speaker 5: military personnel walking on edgshells. Do you believe that emails
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Speaker 5: like that that are essentially threatening both serving officer and
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Speaker 5: a spouse and claiming that they'll lose their pension will
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Speaker 5: have a distraction and detract from the lethality.
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Speaker 3: Senator, you mentioned the forties and fifties, and your precisely right.
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Speaker 3: The military was a forerunner in courageous racial integration in
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Speaker 3: ways no other institutions were willing to do. I served
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Speaker 3: with men and women of all backgrounds because of the
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Speaker 3: courage of people do lay. It's most incredibly importantly, however,
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Speaker 3: the DEI policies of today are not the same as
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Speaker 3: what happened back then. They're dividing troops inside formations, causing
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Speaker 3: commanders to walk on eggshells, not put meritocracy first. That's
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Speaker 3: the indictment that's made by those serving right now. And
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Speaker 3: why we're having this conversation.
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Speaker 1: I love the left here. They're obsessed with trying to say, well,
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Speaker 1: you just can't do this. And guess what, Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: is putting people into positions of power where they're saying,
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Speaker 1: I'm going back to a merit based system. This is
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Speaker 1: one of those subjects that you should be talking about
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Speaker 1: with your kids and your grandkids. This is one of
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Speaker 1: those moments where I truly believe that we must talk
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Speaker 1: to our kids about we shouldn't be hiring someone based
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Speaker 1: on the color of their skin or their sexual orientation.
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Speaker 1: And what the left has done is put our national
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Speaker 1: security at risk, our border security at risk, our government
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Speaker 1: agencies at risk because instead of picking the best and
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Speaker 1: the brightest for job regardless of their skin color, they
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Speaker 1: have our sexual orientation. What the Biden Airs administration said was,
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Speaker 1: you can't hire people based on if they're amazing at
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Speaker 1: a job. You must hire a group of people that
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Speaker 1: is in all forms of Kumbaiism, where you must have
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Speaker 1: a certain piece of the pie that is transgendered, a
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Speaker 1: certain piece that's gay, a certain piece is lesbian, a
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Speaker 1: certain piece that is Hispanic or African American, or gay
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Speaker 1: in African American, or transgendered in African American, or Asian
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Speaker 1: and transgendered or Asian and lesbian, Asian and gay that
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Speaker 1: they're obsession with having a pie that is forced to
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Speaker 1: be all of these things. Notice what they left out
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Speaker 1: merit based. A merit based system is incredibly important. A
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Speaker 1: merit based system is what we should be looking at,
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Speaker 1: especially at the FBI, at the DOJ, in hiring people
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Speaker 1: in our military. The last thing I want to know
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Speaker 1: is that someone was hired because of the color of
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Speaker 1: their skinned or their sexual orientation, or their gender that
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Speaker 1: they quote identify as. I want to know that when
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Speaker 1: we go to war. We have the best people, by
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Speaker 1: the way. I don't give a crap if that means
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Speaker 1: you're gay or straight, or black or white, or Asian
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Speaker 1: or Indian or Hispanic. I don't care. I want to
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Speaker 1: know we have the best people for the job. And
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Speaker 1: what the President is saying is that is exactly what
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Speaker 1: we're gonna do. We're not gonna have these kumbay A pies.
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Speaker 1: We're not gonna have people in the military leading the
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Speaker 1: military who are men dressed like women. That is something
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Speaker 1: that Joe Biden Kamala Harris actually did. We're not gonna
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Speaker 1: have people over health and human services that are dudes
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Speaker 1: dressed like chicks. We're not gonna have people that are
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Speaker 1: in charge of nuclear waste that are dudes dressed like
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Speaker 1: chicks who are stealing women's clothes at airports. That is
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Speaker 1: also something else that Joe Biden than Kamala Harris made
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Speaker 1: a priority and employed, because what they decided is that
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Speaker 1: the government hiring was all about DEI not about the
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Speaker 1: best people for the job. These same people, by the way,
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Speaker 1: that we're making these decisions are the same ones that
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Speaker 1: Joe Biden had to put on a list to pardon
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Speaker 1: because they're afraid that they were so about their jobs
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Speaker 1: and instead of actually doing their job for the American people,
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Speaker 1: they were breaking laws. You look at people like Fauci,
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Speaker 1: You look at people like Chuck Schumer and his staff
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Speaker 1: and how they weaponized the government to go after their
18:35
Speaker 1: political enemies. You look at all of the people like
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Speaker 1: Mark Milly that were given a pardon for goodness sakes
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Speaker 1: because they were more obsessed with things like DEI than
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Speaker 1: they were serving the American people. This is what got
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Speaker 1: us into this mess. Now. I got to tell you,
18:55
Speaker 1: the fact that Donald Trump is moving as fast as
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Speaker 1: he is on this is incredible and it's going to
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Speaker 1: have a massive impact on this country, I think for
19:03
Speaker 1: years to come. I want to turn to something that
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump announced that is also another campaign promise kept.
19:13
Speaker 1: Donald Trump said it is time for other countries to
19:16
Speaker 1: pay their fair share, especially when it comes to foreign aid.
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Speaker 1: The countries for far too long have been taking advantage
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Speaker 1: of the United States of America organizations like the World
19:25
Speaker 1: Health Organization, or the United Nations or NATO. The list
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Speaker 1: goes on and on. So what did President Trump do?
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Speaker 1: He signed an executive order suspending all US foreign assistance
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Speaker 1: programs for the next ninety days, pending what he describes
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Speaker 1: as a comprehensive review to ensure their alignment with his
19:46
Speaker 1: administration's policy objectives. Now, the suspension affects a wide range
19:51
Speaker 1: of global initiatives, including the humanitarian aid packages that we send,
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Speaker 1: economic development packages, and health programs. I believe the US
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Speaker 1: contributes approximately seventy point three billion annually in four and
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Speaker 1: aid supporting various international efforts. Donald Trump is saying, that's
20:12
Speaker 1: too much money. And you and I the taxpayer, are
20:15
Speaker 1: having to pay that seventy plus billion, and we don't
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Speaker 1: have it, which means we're borrowing it, and then we're
20:21
Speaker 1: paying interest on it as well. Now, in conjunction with
20:25
Speaker 1: the suspension, President Trump also announced the United States is
20:29
Speaker 1: withdrawn from the WHO, known as the World Health Organization.
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Speaker 1: It is a process that will take effect in twelve months.
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Speaker 1: So everyone that's freaking out over this calmed down. This
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Speaker 1: could be used as major leverage over the next twelve
20:44
Speaker 1: months to get a better deal. Why do we need
20:47
Speaker 1: a better deal? Well, as President Trump put it, the
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Speaker 1: US is overwhelmingly the largest financial contributor to the World
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Speaker 1: Health Organization, accounting for about twenty percent of its overall funding.
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Speaker 1: This decision has raised many concerns in the White House
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Speaker 1: that we are just writing checks that no one else
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Speaker 1: in the world is willing to write. So what are
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Speaker 1: the faucies of the world saying right now, Well, they're
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Speaker 1: saying that this decision was raising quote major concerns among
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Speaker 1: global health experts, who are now warning that it could
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Speaker 1: undermine the international health initiatives, particularly in low income countries.
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Speaker 1: The President's response is clear, why are we paying twenty
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Speaker 1: percent of the who's contributions? Now, the Secretary of State,
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Speaker 1: Marco Rubio has been tasked with evaluating each foreign aid program.
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Speaker 1: So this will not be done at the Oval office level.
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Speaker 1: He's saying, Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, he needs to
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Speaker 1: dive into this. He needs to evaluate each four and
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Speaker 1: aid program and then Marco Rubio will determine its contributions
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Speaker 1: to America's safety, America's strength, and America's prosperity. That is
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Speaker 1: the criteria laid out by Donald Trump. Now, while the
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Speaker 1: suspension is comprehensive, funding appropriated by Congress and obligations to
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Speaker 1: long term aid recipients like Israel, Egypt and Jordan will
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Speaker 1: remain quote unquote unaffected. That is what the AP is
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Speaker 1: reporting at this hour. Now, these actions reflect quote a
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Speaker 1: significant shift in US foreign policy, emphasizing an America first approach,
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Speaker 1: which clearly the American people wanted. Now, Donald Trump's approach
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Speaker 1: and reevaluation of the nation's role in international assistance in
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Speaker 1: global health leadership could save the American taxpayer literally hundreds
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Speaker 1: of billions of dollars. That is exactly why he said,
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Speaker 1: this is an American first policy. We are not going
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Speaker 1: to be the piggy bank for the rest of the world.
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Speaker 1: He's also call other nations that aren't giving like we are, saying,
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Speaker 1: if you think these policies are so good and these
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Speaker 1: initiatives are so good, then you need to pay your
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Speaker 1: fair share. But America is not going to be an
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Speaker 1: idiot or a dummy any longer. And that's the best
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Speaker 1: part about all of this. Now, it's not just foreign
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Speaker 1: aid that has become a hot button issue. Speaker Mike
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Speaker 1: Johnson and the White House seem to be in lockstep
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Speaker 1: on another issue, and that is when it comes to
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Speaker 1: rebuilding California after the horrific wildfires. There's a lot of debate. Now,
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Speaker 1: how much should you, the American taxpayer be on the
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Speaker 1: hook to rebuild after human government mismanagement. Now, the people
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Speaker 1: in California gets decide to who they want to send
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Speaker 1: to Washingt, d C. Or who they want to be
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Speaker 1: their governor or their mayor, and they have the right
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Speaker 1: to be incompetent. But when they get it wrong, and
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Speaker 1: that incompetence costs people's lives and results in massive destruction
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Speaker 1: we're witnessing right now that was clearly avoidable. Should you
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Speaker 1: and I bail them out as well?
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Speaker 3: Well?
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Speaker 1: Speaker Johnson was asked about that on John Hannity's TV
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Speaker 1: show that they did live from the Capitol, and here
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Speaker 1: is what he said.
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Speaker 6: Let's go to a specific example, our old friend gavenussem Okay,
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Speaker 6: a lot of Gavin fans here, I can tell her.
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Speaker 6: I actually feel sorry for the people in California that
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Speaker 6: we're making. You know, what do they lose thirteen thousand structures?
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Speaker 6: I mean, it's terrible, and they never practiced the science
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Speaker 6: of forestry. How do you have a fire hydrant that
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Speaker 6: has no water? How do you have a reservoir that
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Speaker 6: is empty? That is government to me at its worst. Right,
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Speaker 6: they didn't have control burns that didn't clear the kindling
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Speaker 6: the brush that was that you should be clearing out.
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Speaker 6: And but you go to California, they're a sanctuary state.
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Speaker 6: LA and San Francisco are sanctuary cities. Okay, Gavin is
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Speaker 6: doubling down on a fight Trump agenda. You know, Trump
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Speaker 6: proved California, right, and so are you saying that you
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Speaker 6: that California if they continue to aid and a bet
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Speaker 6: law breaking and harbor illegal immigrants, money from DC gets
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Speaker 6: cut off.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, we're talking about conditions to this disaster. Look, they're
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Speaker 7: natural disasters, but there are man made disasters as well.
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Speaker 7: And they made terrible decisions. You know, they knew exactly
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Speaker 7: what they were doing. That reservoir outside of Pacific Palisades
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Speaker 7: one hundred and seventeen million gallons, it was empty for
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Speaker 7: a year. Why they were trying to save a smelt
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Speaker 7: fish or something. I mean, their policies are upside down.
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Speaker 7: They made decisions that made that disaster exponentially worse. And
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Speaker 7: this is what the American taxpayer is demanding of us
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Speaker 7: everywhere else in the country.
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Speaker 6: But take a step further. Yeah, represent any representatives from
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Speaker 6: California here, anybody? Well, Okay, Hi, he's bashful. That's Caavin's
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Speaker 6: cousin in the back.
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Speaker 1: No, I'm kidding. I'm teasing.
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Speaker 6: Congressmen and women from California. Republicans will come and say,
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Speaker 6: if you do this to my state, I'll never win reelection.
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Speaker 7: No, the Californias that are here are fiscal conservatives. They're
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Speaker 7: fiscally responsible. They know that we owe the taxpayer some
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Speaker 7: accountability for those funds, and so what we're talking about
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Speaker 7: is making sure that they follow common sense in California,
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Speaker 7: and if there's culpability for what happened, there really needs
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Speaker 7: to be conditions that follow that aid. It's not unprecedented,
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Speaker 7: by the way, after Katrina and my Styff there are
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Speaker 7: conditions placed upon the funds that happened after Hurricane Sandy
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Speaker 7: up in the Northeast. So there's a tradition of doing this,
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Speaker 7: and in California it certainly makes sense. So we're going
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Speaker 7: to come to consensus on with them.
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Speaker 6: Would conditions be tied to defundismantle Nobelos.
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Speaker 7: Look, I think all those issues have to be addressed.
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Speaker 7: When you're talking about disaster raid, you don't want to
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Speaker 7: leave the people you know who are really hurting without
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Speaker 7: something because of the terrible political choices of their leaders.
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Speaker 7: But we got to thread that needle the right way.
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Speaker 7: But I think that what we're talking about here is
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Speaker 7: restoring common sense, even in the state of California. Right
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Speaker 7: the mandate, we have, the responsibility you have, We're going
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Speaker 7: to do that very thing.
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Speaker 1: I love the way that was described there. You can
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Speaker 1: be compassionate without us being suckers. Now the left, of course,
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Speaker 1: is going crazy. The minority leader in the House a
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Speaker 1: guy by the name of Representative Jeffries. He was asked
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Speaker 1: on Meet the Press on Sunday about disaster AID and
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Speaker 1: he went back to quote the history in America. Take
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Speaker 1: a listen, let me.
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Speaker 8: Get your take on disaster aid. Leader Jeffries, you just
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Speaker 8: heard Speaker Johnson very clearly say that yes, there may
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Speaker 8: be strings attached, that yes, it's possible that they will
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Speaker 8: move to try to link it to an increase in
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Speaker 8: the debt limit. Would you vote yes if that were
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Speaker 8: to come before you, if that were the only way
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Speaker 8: you believe to get disaster relief to Californians.
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Speaker 9: The California delegation in the House has been very clear
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Speaker 9: that they do not support conditioning disaster assistance to the
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Speaker 9: American people whose lives have been overturned as a result
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Speaker 9: of the historic wildfires in California. In the history of
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Speaker 9: this country, we have never conditioned disaster assistance to Americans
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Speaker 9: who are hurting. Why would we do it?
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Speaker 3: Right now?
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Speaker 9: Here's the answer in terms of why House Republicans are
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Speaker 9: proposing to do just that. House Republicans want to pass
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Speaker 9: massive tax breaks for billionaires and wealthy corporations to benefit
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Speaker 9: the wealthy, the well off, and the well connected, and
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Speaker 9: to stick the bill with working class Americans and those
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Speaker 9: in the middle class who they claim to want to support.
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Speaker 9: That is not an effort. That is not a scheme
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Speaker 9: that Democrats will support.
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Speaker 1: I love how it calls this scheme. In other words,
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Speaker 1: Democrats believe, no matter how incompetent Democrats are or the
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Speaker 1: people that vote for them, and how expensive their incompetency become,
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Speaker 1: when it's a disaster, that you, the American taxpayer, should
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Speaker 1: shut up, borrow the money and write the damn check.
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Speaker 1: Whether it's a billion dollars, fifty billion, one hundred and
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Speaker 1: fifty or three hundred billion. They don't care. They want
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Speaker 1: you to write the check. And what Donald Trump is
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Speaker 1: saying and what Speaker Johnson is saying is no, that
29:20
Speaker 1: is not what the people send us to Washington to do.
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