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Trump's Plan for Nuclear Iran, WH Revoking Security Clearances & Media Meltdown over Border Numbers · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Is there anything that you think Trump has done right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think cracking down on futanyl, making
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  Speaker 2: sure our borders are stronger. I don't think it's appropriate
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  Speaker 2: for people becoming across the border illegally.
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  Speaker 3: But but do you know illegal immigration exploded und your
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  Speaker 3: Biden nothing was really done until his last year in
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  Speaker 3: office when he was sure no.
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  Speaker 4: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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  Speaker 1: Good Monday morning. Ben Ferguson with you. It's nice to
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  Speaker 1: have you on the forty seven Morning Update. Before I
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  Speaker 1: download button right now. First up, Donald Trump administration is
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  Speaker 1: seeking quote full dismantlement of a Rand's nuclear program, and
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  Speaker 1: the President says if I Ran does not comply, there
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  Speaker 1: will be hell to pay. I'll have more on that
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  Speaker 1: and just a moment up next. In a major move,
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump revokes the security clearance of former top US
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  Speaker 1: officials including Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, and James Biden. And finally,
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  Speaker 1: major poll numbers continue to show the American people are
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  Speaker 1: standing with Donald Trump on securing the border and deportation
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  Speaker 1: of those who are in this country illegally. So now
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  Speaker 1: the media is fighting back and having a meltdown. It's
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  Speaker 1: a forty seven morning update and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 1: Story number one, Donald Trump is going to try to
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  Speaker 1: clean up the mess that was left behind by Joe
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  Speaker 1: Biden when it came to Iran. Donald Trump administration we're
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  Speaker 1: now being told as seeking full dismantlement of Iran's nuclear program.
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  Speaker 1: That is obviously a huge deal. National Security Advisor Mike
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  Speaker 1: Walt sag on Sunday on CBS's Face the Nation, the
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  Speaker 1: President Donald Trump was working towards full dismantlement of Iran's
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  Speaker 1: new career program. Here's part of that conversation.
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  Speaker 5: Can you clarify, is the US seeking the dismantlement of
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  Speaker 5: Iran's nuclear program or verification like what President Obama put
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  Speaker 5: in place back in twenty fifteen, and President Trump pulled
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  Speaker 5: out of full dismantlement.
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  Speaker 6: Iran has to give up its program in a way
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  Speaker 6: that the entire world can see and this is look
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  Speaker 6: as president. As President Trump has said, this is coming
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  Speaker 6: to a head. All options are on the table, and
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  Speaker 6: it is time for Iran to walk away completely from
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  Speaker 6: its desire to have a nuclear nuclear weapon and they
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  Speaker 6: will not and cannot be allowed to have a nuclear
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  Speaker 6: weapons program that's enrichment to the president, that is weaponization,
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  Speaker 6: and that it's its strategic missile program. Can you only
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  Speaker 6: imagine we've seen the death and destruction that they're doing
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  Speaker 6: through its proxies between Hesbalah, the Asad regime, the Houthis,
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  Speaker 6: and what avi. If they had nuclear weapons, the entire
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  Speaker 6: Middle East would explode in an arms race that is
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  Speaker 6: completely unacceptable to our national security. I won't get into
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  Speaker 6: what the back and forth has been, but Iran is
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  Speaker 6: in the worst place it has been from its own
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  Speaker 6: national security since nineteen seventy nine thanks to has bla Hamas,
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  Speaker 6: the Asad regime and its own air defenses being taken
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  Speaker 6: out by the Israelis.
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  Speaker 5: So there's still a chance for diplomacy.
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  Speaker 6: I of course the President has all options on the table,
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  Speaker 6: but we want to be clear this isn't some kind
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  Speaker 6: of you know, kind of tit for tat that we
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  Speaker 6: had under the Obama administration of Hiden. This is the
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  Speaker 6: full program. Give it up or there'll be consequences.
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  Speaker 1: Give it up or there will be consequences. It's very
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  Speaker 1: clear that the Trump administration is not willing to negotiate
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  Speaker 1: at all with Ran on the issue of nuclear weapons.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason why it is clearly stated full diessmandement
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  Speaker 1: and Rin has to give up its program in a
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  Speaker 1: way that the entire world can see. And this is
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  Speaker 1: what it's going to be. We are not going to
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  Speaker 1: trust them with any type of nuclear program. Now you
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  Speaker 1: listen to how this president has made it clear to
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  Speaker 1: the world that this is unacceptable what has happened with Iran,
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  Speaker 1: and that we're not going to do this. We're not
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  Speaker 1: going to allow it. And as they described it rans
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  Speaker 1: in the quote worst place it's been from its own
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  Speaker 1: national security standpoint since nineteen seventy nine. The President of
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  Speaker 1: United States of America making it very clear that Iran
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  Speaker 1: will not have any of their nuclear facilities as long
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  Speaker 1: as he's president of the United States of America. And
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  Speaker 1: this is another example of the president leading on the
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  Speaker 1: world stage.
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  Speaker 4: Next story number two, It.
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  Speaker 1: Is a very big move. Donald Trump is revoking the
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  Speaker 1: security clearances of former opponent, former Vice president Kamala Harris,
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  Speaker 1: and even Hillary Clinton. Trump said it is no longer
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  Speaker 1: in the national interests for those listed in the memo
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  Speaker 1: that he has released to have access to classified information.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump revoking the security clearances of also former president
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  Speaker 1: Joe Biden on the list, Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, Lisz Cheney,
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  Speaker 1: and several others who have attacked him and weaponized the
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  Speaker 1: government to go after Donald J. Trump. The White House
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  Speaker 1: released a memo on Friday, the red quote I have
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  Speaker 1: determined that it is no longer in the national interests
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  Speaker 1: for the following individuals to have access to classified information.
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  Speaker 1: That list expanded to also include Anthony B. Lincoln, Jacob Sullivan,
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  Speaker 1: Lisa Monico, Latisha James, Alvin Bragg, Andrew Weisman, Hillary Clinton,
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth Cheney, Kamala Harris, Adam Kinsinger, Fiona Hill, Alexander Vinman,
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  Speaker 1: Joe Biden, and any other member of Joseph R. Biden
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  Speaker 1: Junior's family quote unquote. Earlier this month, the Director of
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  Speaker 1: National Intelligence, Toulsa Gabbert, announced that she had revoked the
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  Speaker 1: security clearances of several people listed in Trump's memo and
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  Speaker 1: blocked them from having access to classified information. She said
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  Speaker 1: the quote fifty one signers of the Hunter Biden disinformation
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  Speaker 1: letter also had their security clearances rescinded. Presidence daily briefing
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  Speaker 1: is no longer being provided to former President Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 1: In addition to having their security clearances revoked, the individuals
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  Speaker 1: listed in Trump's MIMO have had their quote unescorted access
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  Speaker 1: to secure United States government facilities also rescinded. Several people
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  Speaker 1: listed in Trump's MIMO mostly dismissed it in social media posts.
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  Speaker 1: Reacting to the news. Both Zaid and Eisen said it
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  Speaker 1: was quote like the third time quote unquote their security
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  Speaker 1: clearances were revoked. Kensinger posted a video saying that he
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  Speaker 1: retired a year ago from the military and doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: a clearance before calling the president a dumba. The security
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  Speaker 1: clearance MIMO comes just days after Trump announced that he
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  Speaker 1: was stripping Hunter and Ashley Biden of their Secret Service
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  Speaker 1: protection that looked honestly like a small militia or military
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  Speaker 1: around them, the President saying it this way, Hunter Biden
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  Speaker 1: has that secret Service protection for an extended period of time,
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  Speaker 1: all paid for by the United States taxpayers. There are
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  Speaker 1: as many as eighteen people on his detail, which is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: Is what Trump said on true social Please be advised
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  Speaker 1: and effective immediately, Hunter Biden will no longer receive Secret
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  Speaker 1: Service protection. Likewise, Ashley Biden, who has thirteen agents, will
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  Speaker 1: be taken off the list as well.
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  Speaker 6: Now.
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  Speaker 1: While under federal law, former presidents and their spouses receive
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  Speaker 1: lifelong Secret Service protection, but that protection ends for members
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  Speaker 1: of their immediate family when they leave office. That according
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  Speaker 1: to the Associated Press, both Trump and Biden extended protection
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  Speaker 1: for their children before leaving office. But now seeing how
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  Speaker 1: the government was weaponized and the Biden regime used it
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  Speaker 1: to sell access to this country, it's pretty clear now.
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  Speaker 1: Actually it's very clear now that the President saying that's
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  Speaker 1: part of Vanessen stage. We're not going to sit here
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  Speaker 1: and we're not going to allow for people to abuse
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  Speaker 1: their power, whether it's their security clearances that they're selling
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  Speaker 1: for big money to people that want to hire them,
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  Speaker 1: or to the Biden family. The Biden regime having Secret
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  Speaker 1: Service protection that they don't need. The President also made
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  Speaker 1: it clear that they need protection, they can pay for
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  Speaker 1: it themselves, just like any other member of the private
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  Speaker 1: sector does. By the way, you want to know about
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  Speaker 1: someone that actually pays for their home rivate security. There's
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  Speaker 1: a guy by the name of Elon Musk, And if
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  Speaker 1: he can pay for it, then why can't Joe Biden
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  Speaker 1: pay for it for his kids if he wants him
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  Speaker 1: to have it, or why can't his grown kids pay
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  Speaker 1: for it themselves? But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: the bucks seems to be stopping yet again in the
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  Speaker 1: Oval office.
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  Speaker 4: And finally, story number three, it's very.
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  Speaker 1: Clear that Americans are standing behind Donald Trump when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to the issue of illegal immigration and keeping America safe.
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  Speaker 1: New polls are now showing the vast majority of Americans
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  Speaker 1: are supporting deporting illegal immigrants. Plus, the Trump administration has
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  Speaker 1: revoked the visa of another student engaged with campus radicalism.
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  Speaker 1: They promise that they made and clearly they're saying, we're
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  Speaker 1: not flinching. Now let's talk about the numbers. And this
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  Speaker 1: is the part that is really interesting. This was on
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  Speaker 1: the Sunday morning shows. I'm going to play this for
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  Speaker 1: you and I want you to hear what they had
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  Speaker 1: to say about what's happening with legal immigration and the president.
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  Speaker 3: It has been Donald Trump's signature issue since the start
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  Speaker 3: of his political rise, and he's begun his second term
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  Speaker 3: with fast action and striking results.
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  Speaker 7: The hours of taken the oath of office, I declared
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  Speaker 7: a national emergency on our southern border, and I deployed
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  Speaker 7: the US military and border patrol to repel the invasion
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  Speaker 7: of our country.
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  Speaker 1: And on the job they've done.
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  Speaker 3: Preliminary figures for February twenty twenty five show a plunge
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  Speaker 3: in illegal immigrant crossings to levels not seen in twenty
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  Speaker 3: five years, with border patrol apprehending just under eighty five
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  Speaker 3: hundred people during the month. For comparison, during some months
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  Speaker 3: of the Biden administration, eighty five hundred were being apprehended
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  Speaker 3: on a given day.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, think about that number real quick. In what I
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  Speaker 1: just played for you. Now you look at that. And
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  Speaker 1: CNN has now been forced to share where the American
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  Speaker 1: people are on immigration. Now, this is a moment on
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  Speaker 1: CNN that will probably go down in history because I
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  Speaker 1: can't believe they actually did it, but they had no
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  Speaker 1: choice because they had this data and they had to
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  Speaker 1: tell people what it was. And so the poll came
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  Speaker 1: out that the majority of Americans are favoring deportations.
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  Speaker 8: Take a listen, sixty three percent according to the latest
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  Speaker 8: Fox Names Paul say that they favored deporting those immigrants.
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  Speaker 8: So that's a pretty high number. Can you square that
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  Speaker 8: with what we just heard from Priscilla's reporting.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I think that obviously the President has kind of
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  Speaker 9: blanketed the airwaves. We were saying that all of these
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  Speaker 9: people deported are criminals. And given the fact that we
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  Speaker 9: reporters like Prisilla I, we have very limited information to
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  Speaker 9: who exactly has been deported. The government has not handed
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  Speaker 9: over names. I know CBS got a hold of a
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  Speaker 9: list of names, but that hasn't been provided to those
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  Speaker 9: who are asking for who was actually deported. And there
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  Speaker 9: is a difference between someone who came into the country
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  Speaker 9: illegally versus someone who overstated their visa that's not a crime,
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  Speaker 9: versus someone who has no criminal record, no criminal history.
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  Speaker 9: And based on my reporting, based on clearly Priscilla's reporting,
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  Speaker 9: there are some Venezuela nationals whose family members whose lawyers
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  Speaker 9: say that they were deported, who have no criminal record,
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  Speaker 9: who have no criminal history, that they legally applied for
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  Speaker 9: asylum or were trying to gain status, where some of
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  Speaker 9: them were in the middle of proceedings and then they
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  Speaker 9: were deported.
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  Speaker 1: I love how they're like trying to spin this. They
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  Speaker 1: don't know what to say. They can't believe they're having
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  Speaker 1: to admit that the majority of the American people have
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  Speaker 1: left them. And ABC, by the way, Jonathan Carl, he
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  Speaker 1: had this to say on ABC this week about all
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  Speaker 1: of it. Listened carefully.
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  Speaker 5: Is there anything that you think Trump has done right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think cracking down on feanyl, making
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  Speaker 2: sure out borders Austrongo. Look, nobody thinks I legal immigration
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  Speaker 2: is appropriate.
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  Speaker 1: That's Bernie Sanders saying that to Jonathan Carl. And here's
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  Speaker 1: the big takeaway. If Bernie Sanders understands that he's lost
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  Speaker 1: the country on this issue and that the majority of
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  Speaker 1: Americans are now standing overwhelming with Donald Trump in these
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  Speaker 1: poll numbers, is it time for the Democratic Party to pivot?
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  Speaker 1: Is what he is dog whistling to everyone that's a
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  Speaker 1: socialist in his party. Problem is, apparently for Bernie Sanders,
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  Speaker 1: is that no one is listening to what he's saying
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  Speaker 1: right now in the media. And it's because Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: is speaking directly to the American people and making it
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  Speaker 1: very clear he has a plan to secure the border
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  Speaker 1: and also to get rid of people that broke into
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  Speaker 1: this country illegally, and even Bernie Sanders is recognizing it.
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