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600 Military Lawyers to Act as Immigration Judges plus Vaccine Mandates End in Florida · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: President Donald Trump promised that if you elected a president,
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Speaker 1: he was going to get rid of illegal immigrants, especially
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Speaker 1: the worst of them that were in this country, those
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Speaker 1: that committed heinous crimes, violent crimes, those had gone after children,
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Speaker 1: those have been convicted of murder and rape. Well, the
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Speaker 1: President has made good on that promise. But there's still
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Speaker 1: a lot of work to be done. How do we
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Speaker 1: know this Because of the backlock, there are not enough
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Speaker 1: immigration judges to deal with all of the cases. Well,
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Speaker 1: the President said that's not going to stop him from
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Speaker 1: moving forward, And now we know what the plan looks like.
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Speaker 1: The Pentagon has authorized up to six hundred military lawyers
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Speaker 1: to serve as temporary immigration judges. This could speed things
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Speaker 1: up significantly. And not only has the President said this
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Speaker 1: is important, but the Defense Secretary Pete Headseth approving the
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Speaker 1: deployment ofup this six hundred military judges makes it a reality.
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Speaker 1: The Justice Department is where they're going to be working.
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Speaker 1: They're going to act as quote, temporary immigration judges. The
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Speaker 1: directive follows a request from the DOJ to deliberately help
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Speaker 1: alleviate a overwhelming backlog in immigration courts. Why is this
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Speaker 1: happening because we're actually prosecuting people that need to be
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Speaker 1: prosecuted for the crime of being in this country illegally,
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Speaker 1: along with other crimes as well. Now, the deployment timeline
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Speaker 1: is also very important. It will begin as soon as
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Speaker 1: possible with groups of one hundred and fifty attorneys being
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Speaker 1: sent at a time. The first round of personnel is
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Speaker 1: actually expected to be identified by this next week, and
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Speaker 1: then they will be put out into the court system. Now,
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Speaker 1: their initial term will last no more than one hundred
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Speaker 1: and seventy nine days, with the renewals possible under the
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Speaker 1: current directives. Why one hundred and seventy nine It's because
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Speaker 1: how the law works. Right now for these temporary judges,
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Speaker 1: the Justice Department has faced a dramatic shortage of immigration judges.
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Speaker 1: Over one hundred, by the way, have been fired to
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Speaker 1: resign after the deferred resignation offers, cutting the bench roughly
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Speaker 1: in half from about twelve hundred to six hundred judges.
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Speaker 1: The AP is now reporting simultaneously, the immigration court system
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Speaker 1: faces a massive backlog of approximately three point four to
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Speaker 1: three point five million pending cases. How do we get
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Speaker 1: to the point where there were this many cases backlog?
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Speaker 1: It was all by design by the Biden administration so
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Speaker 1: that illegal immigrants could overflow the country and stay here
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Speaker 1: and not actually have to worry about getting in any
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Speaker 1: trouble or being held accountable for breaking into the country.
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Speaker 1: It was also part of the game plan. Democrats wanted
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Speaker 1: to overrun the country, so the only way that seem
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Speaker 1: possible to deal with the issue was to offer some
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Speaker 1: sort of amnesty, to basically say that if, well, you're
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Speaker 1: here already, we'll just let you stay and we'll give
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Speaker 1: you a pathway to citizenship. Well, Donald Trump ran on
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Speaker 1: doing the exact opposite of that, and he's now saying
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Speaker 1: we've got to clean up the backlog, no matter how
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Speaker 1: long it takes, and adding the up to six hundred
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Speaker 1: military lawyers to service temporary immigration judges is a massive
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Speaker 1: step in the right direction. Now, the administration's broader context
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Speaker 1: includes increased immigration enforcement as well, and the White House
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Speaker 1: said the deployment of troops to the border and different
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Speaker 1: major cities, and also the use of military resources in
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Speaker 1: domestic immigration operations. Now, you're gonna hear a lot from
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Speaker 1: the media, and you're gonna hear a lot from the left.
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Speaker 1: Their argument about why this is going to be a
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Speaker 1: quote disaster. Is this they're claiming already that the military lawyers,
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Speaker 1: who haven't even been named or been in the courts
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Speaker 1: yet typically they say, lack training and immigration law or
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Speaker 1: procedure and due process considerations. The American Immigration Lawyers Association
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Speaker 1: coming out with a full court press condemning what they
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Speaker 1: say is the shift, likening assigning the DOJ attorneys to
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Speaker 1: immigration judges is to asking a cardiologist, they say, to
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Speaker 1: do a hip replacement, thus highlighting the mismatch in expertise,
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Speaker 1: and running to the news to put out that propaganda.
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Speaker 1: I just told you, where do they put it first? Well,
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Speaker 1: the mainstream media, and they started with CBS News, and yes,
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Speaker 1: there was also a Reuter's report echoing the same exact
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Speaker 1: verbiage as CBS News and same concerns, noting that even
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Speaker 1: with additional training, jags may struggle with the complexities of
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Speaker 1: immigration proceedings due process, they say, and judicial integrity is
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Speaker 1: also a major problem. Right critics are now saying that
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Speaker 1: this measure prioritizes speed over the fairness of the law
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Speaker 1: breakers of the illegal immigrants. They say that potentially is
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Speaker 1: going to undermine due process and increase the risk of
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Speaker 1: flaud or appealable. They claim decisions. Democratic legislators and immigration
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Speaker 1: rights advocates have already joined together and they're condemning the
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Speaker 1: move and also saying that it is reckless and not
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Speaker 1: putting people where they should be first. So here we are.
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Speaker 1: The Pentagon is authorized up to six hundred military lawyers
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Speaker 1: to serve as temporary judges. The left is saying, yes,
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Speaker 1: this is going to be a disaster and that these
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Speaker 1: illegal immigrants deserve a better system. So here's my response.
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Speaker 1: Maybe it's time for us to stop caring so much
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Speaker 1: about people that break into this country and start protecting
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Speaker 1: their victims and American workers. And that's exactly what I
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Speaker 1: voted for and it's exactly what Donald Trump is doing now.
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Speaker 1: By the way, the local media, they do have a
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Speaker 1: little bit of a different spin on this, especially in
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Speaker 1: cities that have been affected by so many illegal immigrants
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Speaker 1: and much of the violent crime. Let me give you
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Speaker 1: a perfect example of that. The report that played on
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Speaker 1: Fox ten, the local affiliate in Phoenix, sounding very different
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Speaker 1: than what I read you from the big boys at
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Speaker 1: CBS and at the other news media outlets.
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Speaker 2: Their nationwide new at six, the military could soon be
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Speaker 2: running some immigration courts across the US. Today, the Pentagon
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Speaker 2: issued new orders to six hundred military lawyers to serve
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Speaker 2: as temporary immigration judges. The first round of attorneys are
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Speaker 2: heading to the Justice Department next week. The Trump administration
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Speaker 2: says that this will help expedite immigration cases as the
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Speaker 2: country has long dealt with a shortage of judges. Arizona
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Speaker 2: attorney Nick Suriel says that the decision will only bog
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Speaker 2: down an already broken legal system.
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Speaker 3: I've been doing this thirty three years, and this least
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Speaker 3: six hundred pages of immigration law. Well, right, these things
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Speaker 3: are not you know, for the casual observer, These these
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Speaker 3: people being being proposed have is again one week of training.
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Speaker 3: You know what we're asking for. We're asking for all
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Speaker 3: the appellate courts to be clogged, clogged up with cases.
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Speaker 2: The judge advocates have a range of different responsibilities like
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Speaker 2: their civilian counterparts, including carrying out prosecutions, acting as defense
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Speaker 2: attorneys for service members, and offering legal advice.
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Speaker 1: All right, so let's just be real. It's not that
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Speaker 1: different from the mainstream media. Right, it was almost good,
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Speaker 1: but then you hear it the way that it was
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Speaker 1: just described, and yeah, guess what. The media still wants
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Speaker 1: you to think this is some sort of terrible idea. Well,
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, the President of United
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Speaker 1: States of America says, we're going to do this. The
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Speaker 1: Pentagon says we're going to do this. The man in
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Speaker 1: charge of the Pentagon says, we're doing it. And the
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Speaker 1: most important part is this. When you have a system
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Speaker 1: that was deliberately backloged, like the Democrats did, to the
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Speaker 1: point where we have a million and a half people
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Speaker 1: waiting for a date, the president had no choice but
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Speaker 1: to take that disaster and try to get it back
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Speaker 1: to something that's manageable. This is why it's so important
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Speaker 1: moving forward that the president has these judges and maybe
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Speaker 1: others that get in the game and get this country
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Speaker 1: back on track. When it comes to our immigration laws, policies,
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Speaker 1: and enforcement, cause and effect is something that happens all
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Speaker 1: the time. Well, there was a major cause and effect
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Speaker 1: when it came to COVID nineteen and the lies that
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Speaker 1: were told to the American people about that vaccine and
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Speaker 1: so many of the regulations and rules that put us
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Speaker 1: in a lockdown for far too long. What happened. There's
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Speaker 1: a lot of people now asking more questions than ever
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Speaker 1: about the CDC and not trusting the CDC, not trusting
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Speaker 1: them on vaccines. It also brought up an even bigger point,
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Speaker 1: should the government be able to mandate what vaccines you
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Speaker 1: have to have for your kids? Well, Florida, they said
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Speaker 1: they believe that parents should have the rights over their children,
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Speaker 1: not the federal government when it comes to vaccines. Let
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Speaker 1: me be clear about what happened in Florida. It is
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Speaker 1: not in Florida, and this is very important, a ban
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Speaker 1: on vaccines. What Florida has now done is said parents
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Speaker 1: could decide, not the government, and that brings us to
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Speaker 1: the big headline. Liberals are losing their minds because they
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Speaker 1: want the government to be able to dictate to you
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Speaker 1: what you have to do for your children. Florida now
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Speaker 1: we know plans to eliminate all vaccine mandates, including those
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Speaker 1: required for children attending public schools. The announcement came from
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Speaker 1: the Surgeon General of Florida and was made during a
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Speaker 1: press conference alongside Governor Ron De Santis. Now, the Surgeon
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Speaker 1: General describe the mandates as oppressive and even liken them
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Speaker 1: to slavery, and frame the repeal as a matter of
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Speaker 1: printal choice, bodily autonomy, and medical freedom. Florida, by the way,
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Speaker 1: would become the first US state to withdraw mandatory vaccination
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Speaker 1: requirements entirely, marking a significant shift from decades of public
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Speaker 1: health policy. Now, while the Department of Health can rescind
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Speaker 1: mandates it issued administratively, any vaccine requirements established by laws,
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Speaker 1: such as those for polio, measles, and monks, you know, intentanus,
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Speaker 1: for example, will require legislative action to quote unquote repeal. Well,
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Speaker 1: the liberals their minds exploded over this, as well as
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Speaker 1: many in the medical field. The American Medical Associations say
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Speaker 1: that the repeal would quote undermine decades of public health
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Speaker 1: progress and dramatically increased the risk of serious illness. Well,
11:05
Speaker 1: guess what if you guys at the CDC and in
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Speaker 1: the medical community wouldn't have lied about the COVID vaccine
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Speaker 1: and its effectiveness, or the spread or masking or staying
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Speaker 1: six feet apartners, shutting down the schools, or any of
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Speaker 1: the issues you lied to us about with COVID, then
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Speaker 1: we might actually believe you on issues moving forward. But
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Speaker 1: the reality is Americans don't. Infectious disease leaders also came
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Speaker 1: out warning of likely outbreaks of preventable diseases like measles
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Speaker 1: and polio, especially in schools and vulnerable populations. Florida Democrats
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Speaker 1: echoed these concerns, with Senator Jones calling it a quote
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Speaker 1: grave public health risk. Another state senator emphasized disease like
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Speaker 1: polio could return and that would be horrific for Florida. Now,
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Speaker 1: I went on CNN Newsnight with Abby Phillips. It was
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Speaker 1: the lead story, and I want you to hear how
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Speaker 1: the media is now attacking Donald Trump for this, saying
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Speaker 1: that he's going to have kids die because of a popsey.
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Speaker 1: It's been acted in Florida. Yes, they want to fear
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Speaker 1: monger you and control you. Yet again, listen carefully.
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Speaker 4: Joining the conversation for this one is doctor Chris Parnell.
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Speaker 4: She's the director of the NAACP Center for Health Equity
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Speaker 4: and Public Health and Preventative Medicine. Physician and doctor Purnell,
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Speaker 4: you know this well. In twenty twenty, we had thirteen
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Speaker 4: cases of measles twenty twenty five, fourteen hundred, a huge
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Speaker 4: increase in whooping cough whooping cough in this country, and
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Speaker 4: at the same time, the rates of vaccine exemptions have
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Speaker 4: gone up by about a point since twenty nineteen. None
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Speaker 4: of this is by accident, none of this is by osmosis.
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Speaker 4: And now this in Florida reckless.
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Speaker 5: If I could summon up in one word, let's just
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Speaker 5: go to some facts, and I have him here to
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Speaker 5: keep myself honest. Since the last thirty years, we've saved
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Speaker 5: over one hundred and fifty million lives because of vaccines globally.
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Speaker 5: If we begin to think about in the United States,
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Speaker 5: we've saved over one point one million children due to
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Speaker 5: vaccination since nineteen ninety four. We've prevented five hundred and
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Speaker 5: eight million illnesses in thirty two million hospitalizations. That's not
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Speaker 5: anything to wink at. That's hardcore data. But what's happening
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Speaker 5: in the United States is as if we are a
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Speaker 5: runaway train. In public health, we talk about the cliff
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Speaker 5: of good health, and we have fallen completely off of
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Speaker 5: the cliff.
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Speaker 4: That company feels like that in a way, Ben that
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Speaker 4: everybody sitting at this table, all the folks in Florida,
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Speaker 4: all of these people who are vaccine skeptics now have
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Speaker 4: benefited from vaccines allowing them to live their lives without polio,
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Speaker 4: without measles, and now all of a sudden they want
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Speaker 4: to pull the rut out from underneath children, as I'm
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Speaker 4: surprised by. I mean, you have kids, A lot of
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Speaker 4: us do at this table. If you live in Florida,
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Speaker 4: what what would you?
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Speaker 6: Two things?
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Speaker 7: One't they're not outlawed.
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Speaker 6: That's good. The parents are going to decide too. There's
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Speaker 6: a cause and effect.
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Speaker 7: And the CDC lied to us about COVID and they
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Speaker 7: lied a lot. They lied about masks in school, they
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Speaker 7: lied about distancing, They lied about the efficiency or the
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Speaker 7: effectiveness of the COVID nineteen vaccine.
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Speaker 1: It is true I said that distancing, did they did?
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Speaker 1: They not lie about the effective of the mass Yes.
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Speaker 5: If you talk about certain types of masks, if we're
14:38
Speaker 5: looking at high quality masks. If we're looking at high
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Speaker 5: quality masks, right, so mass absolutely permit infections because this
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Speaker 5: is the way science works. Science works as you get data,
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Speaker 5: the type of communication that you give.
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Speaker 6: You can't say the reason you can.
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Speaker 4: I think I actually think it's a more if you're
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Speaker 4: saying things that are accurate. I do think it's fair
15:05
Speaker 4: for her to count.
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Speaker 8: He said that masking was effective and work when they
15:09
Speaker 8: knew internal documents said, emails came out that it didn't work.
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Speaker 1: Okay, well what distance he said.
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Speaker 7: You're seeing it was going to stop?
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Speaker 4: Then are you are you gonna are you going to
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Speaker 4: have a conversation? Are you just going to keep talking?
15:26
Speaker 6: Look?
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Speaker 4: Hold on, okay, First of all, what she is disputing
15:32
Speaker 4: is your language around this, which is that they lied,
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Speaker 4: which she's saying. I think she's right about this is
15:38
Speaker 4: not true. There are certain types of masks that work
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Speaker 4: better than others science.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this is this is one Florida did this.
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Speaker 6: Let me do what you guys don't understand. There's a cause.
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Speaker 8: Effect that the American people don't trust this for the
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Speaker 8: reasons I said, you may not like this.
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Speaker 3: You may not.
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Speaker 4: Americans don't trust the CD because RFK Junior and I
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Speaker 4: got the job. Hold on a second, okay, man, just
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Speaker 4: give me one second. Okay, this this Florida Surgeon General
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Speaker 4: has been railing against vaccines for a while, but he's
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Speaker 4: also responsible for a lot of misinformation. He's altered key
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Speaker 4: findings in a COVID nineteen vaccine safety study.
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Speaker 6: Practice.
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Speaker 4: He pushed things like cures like ivermectin and others for
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Speaker 4: for cot not work.
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Speaker 6: No have it shows that it did work.
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Speaker 4: No, he is pushing all of those that it does
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Speaker 4: not work effect Okay, Ben, are you really going to
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Speaker 4: argue with the doctor.
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Speaker 8: This iss during COVID You guys screwed us and we've
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Speaker 8: failed miserably at a vaccine.
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Speaker 1: Isn't it amazing how they're so angry that you have
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Speaker 1: parents that are going to have the right to make
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Speaker 1: a decision for their children what is best for them.
17:02
Speaker 1: They cannot stand that the government can't dictate to the people,
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Speaker 1: at least in Florida on the issue of vaccines. They
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Speaker 1: cannot stand to admit that the reason why this happened,
17:15
Speaker 1: the reason why RFK Juniors and the government is because
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Speaker 1: the cause of effect of the CDC lying pathologically to
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Speaker 1: the American people every step of the way on the
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Speaker 1: issue of COVID nineteen, the effectiveness of vaccines and masking
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Speaker 1: and all the other things that I just mentioned. And
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Speaker 1: they're mad that this is happening in Florida. Now, look,
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Speaker 1: I think the people in Florida should be trusted. I
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Speaker 1: think the people in Florida should have the right to
17:41
Speaker 1: do what's best for their children. And if the doctors
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Speaker 1: are angry that they say the science is overwhelming that
17:48
Speaker 1: these vaccine mandates should be a thing, Well, then they
17:52
Speaker 1: should actually talk to their patients about it with compassion
17:57
Speaker 1: and understanding instead of the arrogance that you just heard
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Speaker 1: right there from that doctor, condescending and frustrated of anybody
18:05
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18:09
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Speaker 1: Fifth Amendment during his Oversight Committee appearance, becoming the second
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Speaker 1: such individual in the probe to do so. Comer responded
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Speaker 1: by stating that the public is concerned about unaccountable decision
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Speaker 1: making within the White House. In other words, who was
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Speaker 1: actually in charge. The bottom line is clear. Representative Coma
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Speaker 1: asserts he now has unprecedented evidence of a cover up
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Speaker 1: involving the autopen use and Biden's Kaig of decline. Now,
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Speaker 1: this is what he had to say on Fox Sunday Morning.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen.
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Speaker 9: This week, the House Oversight Committee is set to continue
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Speaker 9: its investigation into Joe Biden's mental fitness during his presidency
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Speaker 9: when former White House Deputy Assistant Andrew Bates sits down
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Speaker 9: for an interview on Friday. Former White House Press Secretary Kareein,
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Speaker 9: Jean Pierre, and former White House Chief of Staff Jeff
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Speaker 9: Designs are also slated to appear before the committee in
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Speaker 9: coming weeks. Joining me now with more on his investigation
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Speaker 9: into former President Biden. In the chairman is the chairman
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Speaker 9: of the House Oversight Committee, Congressman James Comer. It's great
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Speaker 9: to have you with us this morning.
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Speaker 1: Welcome.
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Speaker 9: I want to get the latest on the investigation, Congressman,
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Speaker 9: but also what we've heard so far, Key figures, taking
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Speaker 9: the fifth Key Figures that day after day said that
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Speaker 9: Biden was totally fit and ready to do the job.
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Speaker 9: Now saying they really didn't spend that much time with him.
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Speaker 9: The testimony doesn't add up with what we see. A
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Speaker 9: something is awry.
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Speaker 6: Here, Something's definitely awry.
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Speaker 10: Look when you have Ian Sam's who was the face
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Speaker 10: of the White House response to the very damaging report
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Speaker 10: that said that Joe Biden was a forgetful old man.
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Speaker 10: He was the face of the White House response to
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Speaker 10: our investigation Byron Donalds and myself as well as all
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Speaker 10: the members of the House Oversycmvita when we found that
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Speaker 10: China had in fact wired money to LLC's owned by
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Speaker 10: Biden family members. He was the one that would always
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Speaker 10: respond and see he talked.
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Speaker 6: To Joe Biden. Joe Biden was vibrant.
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Speaker 10: Joe Biden did not do this, the famili sayes it
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Speaker 10: and then come to find out when we put him
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Speaker 10: under oath, he admits, well, I only saw Joe Biden
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Speaker 10: two times over a two year period.
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Speaker 6: That's unprecedented.
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Speaker 10: We're trying to get to the bottom of who was
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Speaker 10: operating the autopin and we've brought in a dozen people
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Speaker 10: so far, and they're all pointing the fingers at other people.
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Speaker 10: The ones that I think may have a little more.
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Speaker 10: They played the fifth to avoid self incrimination.
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Speaker 6: So I think what.
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Speaker 10: You're going to see is unless John Pierre and some
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Speaker 10: of these others come in and, you know, tell us more,
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Speaker 10: it's becoming very apparent that Joe Biden really wasn't the
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Speaker 10: one in command at the end of his presidency.
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Speaker 6: And that's important because.
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Speaker 10: You're talking about thousands of pardons and dozens of executive
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Speaker 10: orders that were signed with that autopen, and it appears
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Speaker 10: without President Biden's knowledge.
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Speaker 9: Absolutely, I want to move to this ten FBI whistleblowers.
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Speaker 9: They warned of political weaponization, and they also say that
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Speaker 9: they faced retaliation from the Biden administration. We've been talking
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Speaker 9: about this weaponization as a theme. It touches so many
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Speaker 9: different aspects of what we've discussed just this morning alone.
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Speaker 9: But it also shows you that it's not just the
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Speaker 9: president who has faced this. It flows into all different
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Speaker 9: levels and to everyday people that are just trying to
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Speaker 9: serve and do their duties.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 10: Well, look, the government is comprised of an overwhelming number
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Speaker 10: of liberals, an overwhelming number of activists. During the Obama
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Speaker 10: and Biden years, the government numbers swelled of liberal activists
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Speaker 10: that came in. Whether they worked for the EPA or
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Speaker 10: whether they worked for the Department of Justice or the FBI,
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Speaker 10: they had an agenda. They weren't necessarily public servants. The
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Speaker 10: ones that rose to the top were activists, and these
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Speaker 10: activists tried to weaponize the federal government in various forms,
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Speaker 10: whether to enact policy or whether to ruin the lives
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Speaker 10: of people or influence elections as we've seen. So now
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Speaker 10: we have people in place like Tulca Gabbert and John
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Speaker 10: Ratcliffe and Cash Ptael who are exposing this. Congress has exposed,
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Speaker 10: as the House Oversight Committee is exposed, to the Judiciary
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Speaker 10: Committee under Jim Jordan's exposed it. Now we need accountability,
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Speaker 10: and I'm hopeful that Pam Bondi will take this evidence
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Speaker 10: and her Department of Justice will start holding people account
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Speaker 10: And we're seeing President Trump be more active on true
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Speaker 10: social encouraging his own Department of Justice to hold people
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Speaker 10: accountable for wrongdoing.
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Speaker 6: And I think it's going to happen.
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Speaker 1: And I think it's going to happen very clearly. James
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Speaker 1: Comer sharing unpressded details surrounding the by not open investigation
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Speaker 1: and also what the White House is doing to hold
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Speaker 1: people accountable as well. This is exactly what so many
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Speaker 1: Americans voted for and why I think there's many in
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Speaker 1: Washington right now, in the deep State that are very
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Speaker 1: concerned about what's happening now. By the way, Comer wasn't
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Speaker 1: done there. He also was asked this question, listen.
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Speaker 9: Carefully, and the weaponization is really interesting because in some
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Speaker 9: ways it serves as a distraction. Look over here, so
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Speaker 9: you're not really focusing on what was over here. Many
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Speaker 9: Americans want to know went on with Special Counsel Jack
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Speaker 9: Smith going after the president. They want to know about
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Speaker 9: Jim Comey and John Brennan and Russiagate and where the
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Speaker 9: accountability is in those instances.
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Speaker 6: I completely agree.
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Speaker 10: As I travel Kentucky as well as all across America.
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Speaker 10: That's the biggest question I get from people. When are
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Speaker 10: people going to be held toc doutible for this wrongdoing?
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Speaker 10: The evidence that the investigations are complete, more and more
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Speaker 10: evidence that's surfacing.
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Speaker 6: One of the limiting.
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Speaker 10: Factors we had, whether it was Jim Jordan's Weaponization Subcommittee
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Speaker 10: or my House Oversight Committee, was the fact that the
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Speaker 10: Body administration wouldn't turn over documents. Now we've got Trump
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Speaker 10: administration officials like Cash Matel and like John Ratcliffe and
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Speaker 10: Tulsea Gabbard who are making public these documents. So I
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Speaker 10: think the case now for the Department of Justice, Trump's
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Speaker 10: Department of Justice, Pam Body's Department Justice is now there
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Speaker 10: to hold these people account when I think you're seeing
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Speaker 10: more hints from President Trump that the day of accountability
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Speaker 10: is near and hopefully this is going to set an
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Speaker 10: example for future people in the government never to let
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Speaker 10: this deep state rise again and to try to weaponize
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Speaker 10: the government to punish your enemies or to enact liberal
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Speaker 10: legislative agendas like the Green New Deal.
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Speaker 9: On Tuesday, Sir, House members are going to meet with
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Speaker 9: Epstein victims. How is that going to play into how
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Speaker 9: the Department of Justice is handling this As Americans have
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Speaker 9: said they want to see the files.
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Speaker 10: Right and I want to commend the Department Justice. Pambondi's
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Speaker 10: has started turning over those documents to the House oversighte
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Speaker 10: Committee is subpoena those documents. The Trump administration is cooperating
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Speaker 10: with us. We're bringing in the families and the attorneys
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Speaker 10: of the victims Tuesday afternoon to talk to the House
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Speaker 10: Oversight Committee. This will be Republicans and Democrats because we're
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Speaker 10: going to make this information public. That's what the American
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Speaker 10: people want. When we travel around all of our districts,
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Speaker 10: That's one of the things that people ask, when are
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Speaker 10: we going to see the Epstein files. But it's very
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Speaker 10: complicated because there are victims of the Epstein files, and
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Speaker 10: we want to listen to those victims and their families
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Speaker 10: and their attorneys to see how best can we present
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Speaker 10: this information. Do they want their names redacted? Do they
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Speaker 10: not want their names redacted? And that's one of the
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Speaker 10: things that President Trump's talked about, like this is a
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Speaker 10: lot more complicated than then. A lot of people want
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Speaker 10: to realize there are victims that are involved here, and
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Speaker 10: we want to protect their futures and their reputations and
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Speaker 10: their family So we're going to have a good conversation
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Speaker 10: to see how best then to turn around and present
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Speaker 10: this information to the American people and hopefully put this
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Speaker 10: issue to rest so Congress can focus on passing the
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Speaker 10: spending bill and working with President Trump to reduce crime
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Speaker 10: in our big cities.
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Speaker 1: Translation, it is a very big week in Washington, d C.
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Speaker 1: And James Comer helping lead the way on the House side.
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Speaker 1: Many Democrats on the Senate side are worried about the
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Speaker 1: Republicans there, and the media is obviously terrified what's happening
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