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Election Day in America: 5 Reasons Why You Need to Vote · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: As we are just hours away from the polls opening
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Speaker 1: on election Day and all time record high early voting
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Speaker 1: numbers that have already come in. The question many are
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Speaker 1: asking is should I get up tomorrow and should I
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Speaker 1: make time to go vote. It is a question that
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Speaker 1: many Americans are going to be asked themselves in the
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Speaker 1: next few hours as they go to sleep. Should we
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Speaker 1: vote tomorrow, honey or dear? Or should they call a
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Speaker 1: friend and go vote? Do you want to stand in line?
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Speaker 1: Is it actually worth it? Well, let's start with a
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Speaker 1: reminder of where we are now and why your vote
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Speaker 1: now may matter more than you actually ever realized. Inflation
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Speaker 1: is the number one issue. It is the economy. I
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Speaker 1: keep saying it over and over again. It is the economy, stupid.
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Speaker 1: And if you're still really not sure whether you should
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Speaker 1: vote or not, then maybe this will help. Energy prices
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Speaker 1: are up thirty four point three percent compared to where
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Speaker 1: they were under Donald Trump. The price of gas up
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Speaker 1: thirty eight point two percent under Harris and Biden, electricity
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Speaker 1: up thirty one point three percent under Harris and Biden,
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Speaker 1: fuel oil up thirty seven point four percent under Harris
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Speaker 1: and Biden. Natural gas Going into election day up twenty
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Speaker 1: four percent, Transportation up thirty one percent, new cars up
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Speaker 1: over twenty percent, car insurance up fifty six and a
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Speaker 1: half percent. Airline tickets are up twenty four point five percent.
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Speaker 1: Hotel is up more than forty two percent, the cost
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Speaker 1: to stay in a hotel. Groceries, depending on where you live,
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Speaker 1: up as much as thirty percent. You want to know
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Speaker 1: how much eggs cost you now compared to when Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump was president? Seventy percent up right now? Breakfast cereal
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Speaker 1: up twenty two percent. Margarine because apparently you can't afford
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Speaker 1: butter right now it's so expensive, is up fifty four percent.
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Speaker 1: Dried beans, peas, lentils up twenty three percent, frozen vegetables
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Speaker 1: up twenty seven percent. You want to bake a cake?
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Speaker 1: This reminds me of the Great Depression. Flour up thirty
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Speaker 1: five point eight percent, peanut butter up forty two percent,
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Speaker 1: Coffee up twenty to thirty percent, depending on where you live.
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Speaker 1: And then let's talk about your kids. Where are we
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Speaker 1: now compared to where we were the last day Trump
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Speaker 1: was in office? Food at pre case. At schools, I
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Speaker 1: should say, kindergarten through twelfth grade up seventy percent if
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Speaker 1: you don't like kids, you like pets, maybe you're the
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Speaker 1: crazy woman with cats. Your pet food is up more
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Speaker 1: than twenty four percent, and clothing skyrocketing depending on which category,
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Speaker 1: between fifteen percent to fifty percent. Non prescription drugs, tail
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Speaker 1: and al Advil, alive, Tom's basic things like that up
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Speaker 1: over sixteen point six percent. This is where we are
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Speaker 1: right now when it comes to the issue of inflation. Now,
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Speaker 1: if that's not enough to wake you up, let's talk
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Speaker 1: about what's happening with the economy and you providing for
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Speaker 1: your family. Last month, only twelve thousand new jobs were added.
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Speaker 1: The estimates were supposed to be one hundred and thirteen
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Speaker 1: thousand jobs that were added. The jobs the worst jobs
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Speaker 1: report we've had in the history of the Biden Harris administration,
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Speaker 1: meaning things are getting even worse. They also lied about
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Speaker 1: the number of jobs that were added earlier this month
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Speaker 1: and last month and the month before, as eight hundred
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Speaker 1: thousand jobs disappeared, meaning they never were filled by Americans,
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Speaker 1: and the federal government lied to you. Let's talk about
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Speaker 1: crime real quick. We had more illegal immigrants coming into
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Speaker 1: the country last month than jobs were created, and there
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Speaker 1: are many illegal immigrants that are coming into this country
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Speaker 1: that are committing heinous crimes. Yes, Kamala har is silent
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Speaker 1: on the crime in this country because she doesn't want
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Speaker 1: you to know that there are a significant number of
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Speaker 1: people that are on the terrorist watch lists that have
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Speaker 1: come across our southern border. There are tens of thousands
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Speaker 1: of convicted rapists and convicted murderers that will be the
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Speaker 1: first to be deported if Donald Trump is elected. That
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Speaker 1: she doesn't want to admit her open borders have allowed
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Speaker 1: into this country. We also have another issue that has
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Speaker 1: now come to light, and they've been lying about the
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Speaker 1: housing numbers. The American dream for many Americans is to
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Speaker 1: own a home. There is a Harris housing crisis and
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Speaker 1: first time buyers have now fallen into a new record low.
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Speaker 1: This breaking as I am recording this right now. The
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Speaker 1: share of home purchases made by first time home buyers
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Speaker 1: fell to the lowest level on record in history this
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Speaker 1: year as many younger Americans were priced out of the
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Speaker 1: market by home price inflation. Then, on top of that,
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Speaker 1: the high interest rates that have skyrocket on home ownership
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Speaker 1: under Harris and Biden because of inflation and the cost
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Speaker 1: of living increases that I just mentioned before. First time buyers, unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: now have made up just twenty four percent of purchases
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four. That according to the National Association
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Speaker 1: of Realtors, That is the lowest mark since the National
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Speaker 1: Association of Relators began collecting data back in nineteen eighty one.
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Speaker 2: That would be forty two years ago.
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Speaker 1: So for all of the data that's ever been collected
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Speaker 1: on home buyers, first time home buyers are at the
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Speaker 1: lowest level since data was collected in nineteen eighty one,
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Speaker 1: that was the year that I was born. It also
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Speaker 1: marks a steep decline from last year, where first time
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Speaker 1: buyers made up thirty three percent of purchases. During Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump's presidency, you want to know what the average was
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Speaker 1: more than thirty three percent, because we had low prices
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Speaker 1: and low interrs and it allowed for Americans to actually
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Speaker 1: experience the American dream. The median first time buyer age
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Speaker 1: has also jumped to thirty eight years old this year
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Speaker 1: from just thirty five years old last year. That is
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Speaker 1: the largest increase year over year in the age gap
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Speaker 1: in this country for first time home buyers. So if
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Speaker 1: Harris is the president, the average age you're going to
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Speaker 1: find out for a first time home buyer in her
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Speaker 1: administration will be forty years old to buy your first home.
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Speaker 1: That would be the median age, meaning fifty percent will
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Speaker 1: be above forty the first time they ever own their home.
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Speaker 1: During Trump's presidency, that number was all the way down
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Speaker 1: to thirty three years old.
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Speaker 2: Quote.
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Speaker 1: The US housing market is split into two groups, first
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Speaker 1: time home buyers struggling to enter the market and current
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Speaker 1: homeowners buying with cash. That is what the National Association
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Speaker 1: of Realtors said in a statement, saying first time buyers
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Speaker 1: are now facing high home prices, high mortgage interest rates,
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Speaker 1: limited inventory, making them a decade older with significantly higher
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Speaker 1: incomes than previous generations to buy a home. So, in
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Speaker 1: other words, you have to wait another decade to buy
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Speaker 1: a house under the Harris regime. If that doesn't wake
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Speaker 1: you up and make you want to go to the polls,
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Speaker 1: I don't know what does. But that's not the only
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Speaker 1: problem that this administration has. And if you want to
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Speaker 1: know why you should wake up and go vote, and
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Speaker 1: why you should call a friend and go vote, it's
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Speaker 1: not even just these issues I've laid out for you,
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Speaker 1: but it's also the issue of crime. In our cities.
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Speaker 1: Violent criminals have taken over so many of our cities.
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Speaker 1: You have activist das that are refusing to act actually
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Speaker 1: go after criminals they're committing heinous crimes. This is part
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Speaker 1: of the radical left's agenda to empty the jails, to
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Speaker 1: have bail reform, prison reform, and not hold people accountable
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Speaker 1: for their actions. This is part of the defund the
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Speaker 1: police movement that is very much a part of Harris
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Speaker 1: and Biden and their administration. She is in favor of
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Speaker 1: bail reform. Bail reform means if you don't have money
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Speaker 1: because you're quote poor, we don't keep you in jail,
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Speaker 1: no matter how heinous your crime is. This is also
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Speaker 1: about making sure we don't put people in jail that
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Speaker 1: commit Hannes' crimes. That's part of prison reform as they
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Speaker 1: describe it. But there is also another problem. The number
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Speaker 1: of illegal immigrants have come across the southern border because
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Speaker 1: of the wide open borders, and this administration just doesn't care.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen to the local news covering this issue.
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Speaker 1: They don't spend much time on it. This story just
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Speaker 1: twenty seconds long, and tell me if this is a
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Speaker 1: bigger issue than twenty seconds of local media attention and
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Speaker 1: no national media attention at all.
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Speaker 3: This morning, This Westbury man here on your screen. He's
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Speaker 3: accused of raping a five year old girl. Detective Say
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Speaker 3: Wilson Castillo Diaz assaulted the girl about two weeks ago.
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Speaker 3: Polly Say, the twenty six year old entered the country
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Speaker 3: illegally back in twenty fourteen, was arrested and released, but
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Speaker 3: never showed up for his immigration hearing. We're told ICE
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Speaker 3: has been notified about this. Police are not asking anyone
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Speaker 3: who believes that they may be a victim to give
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Speaker 3: them a call.
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Speaker 1: This crime has become so common that even on the
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Speaker 1: local news twelve there in Long Island, they only gave
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Speaker 1: it twenty seconds of airtime of an illegal immigrant raping
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Speaker 1: a five year old and saying, by the way, if
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Speaker 1: anyone else has been raped by this man, please call
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Speaker 1: the authorities. This is an illegal immigrant that came into
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Speaker 1: this country illegally, who raped this five year old. And
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Speaker 1: they say, hey, sorry, it is what it is.
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Speaker 2: It is.
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Speaker 1: How about a Honduran illegal immigrant? And again, this is
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Speaker 1: not in a border city. These are happening in other
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Speaker 1: towns all over the country that are not bordered towns.
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Speaker 1: Here's another story for you night.
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Speaker 2: Law enforcement sources confirmed to Fox forty five the suspected killer,
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Speaker 2: identified as an alleged MS thirteen gang member, is also
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Speaker 2: just sixteen.
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Speaker 4: That's right, and let's go straight to Fox forty five
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Speaker 4: for Rebecca Prior. She joins US Live with some new
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Speaker 4: details and explains why the team is wanted by both
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Speaker 4: local and federal authorities. Rebecca, Hey, Mary, and Kay. It
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Speaker 4: is a case that is now highlighting the state's ongoing
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Speaker 4: challenges with youth violence and now immigration issues. Today, federal
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Speaker 4: officials telling Fox forty five that the teenage murder suspect
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Speaker 4: is believed to be a Hondura's national living in the
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Speaker 4: country illegally. Take a look. This is what he looks like.
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Speaker 4: This afternoon, Baltimore County Police releasing sixteen year old Brian
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Speaker 4: Rodriguez's photo asking for the public's help tracking him down.
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Speaker 4: He's wanted in connection to a deadly shooting that took
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Speaker 4: place on Sunday at the Ramada Hotel in Pikesville. Hotel
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Speaker 4: staff telling Fox forty five it was a group of
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Speaker 4: teenagers that were inside of one of the rooms when
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Speaker 4: gunfire rang out around two PM, striking another sixteen year
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Speaker 4: old who later died at the hospital. According to law
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Speaker 4: enforcement sources, Fox forty five confirming Rodriguez is an alleged
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Speaker 4: MS thirteen gang member and accused of entering the US
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Speaker 4: illegally in twenty eighteen, making him the target of local
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Speaker 4: police and federal immigration agents. For now, it's unclear if
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Speaker 4: this was his first alleged offense. For the past three days,
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Speaker 4: Fox forty five has been asking police and DJs if
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Speaker 4: this is their first encounter with Rodriguez and if he
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Speaker 4: was under DJs monitoring at the time of the shooting.
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Speaker 4: So far, police have not responded to the questions directly
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Speaker 4: in DJs claims that they can't comment on individual cases
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Speaker 4: beyond knowns and ongoing manhunt putting County residents we spoke
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Speaker 4: with on Edge this.
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Speaker 5: Evening, continuing on the lines of this juvenile crime that
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Speaker 5: we're seeing that that's just more violent.
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Speaker 6: That makes me a concern for my lemon year old.
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Speaker 6: I worry about his safety and all the kids safety
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Speaker 6: that I know, and anybody because they could have missed
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Speaker 6: that person and hit somebody else.
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Speaker 5: Again.
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Speaker 4: Police are encouraging anyone with any information into this case
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Speaker 4: to come forward, but warn that this suspect should not
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Speaker 4: be approached. If you see him, call nine one one.
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Speaker 4: Police are also offering a two thousand dollars reward for
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Speaker 4: any information that could lead to an arrest.
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Speaker 1: Now I play you that story because I also know
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Speaker 1: what the left is going to say. You can't deport children.
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Speaker 1: This murderer, this MS thirteen gang member with sixteen, that's
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Speaker 1: a child. This is what is coming into this country.
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Speaker 1: Are you telling me that a sixteen year old MS
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Speaker 1: thirteen gang member shouldn't be deported from this country? Because
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Speaker 1: they're gonna make you want to cry and talk about
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Speaker 1: how evil conservatives are that we want to start deporting people.
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Speaker 1: Let me tell you, I want to deport every sixteen
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Speaker 1: year old military aged man seventeen or eighteen, get them
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Speaker 1: the hell out of this country, and allow for people
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Speaker 1: to come this country the legal, in correct way. We
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Speaker 1: should not allow for illegal immigrants to come into this
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Speaker 1: country the way that we have it now, especially with
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Speaker 1: a number of gangs and the number of rapists and
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Speaker 1: the number of convicted murderers that we've allowed into this country.
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Speaker 1: But you want to know what our government's doing, You
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Speaker 1: want to know what the Harris and Biden administration. You're
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Speaker 1: doing you know to know what liberals are doing right now, Well,
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Speaker 1: these types of heinous crimes are being committed. They're going
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Speaker 1: in and raiding the homes of Internet sensations that have
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Speaker 1: a pet squirrel.
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Speaker 2: I wish I was joking, I'm not.
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Speaker 1: And this is exactly when you know your government is
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Speaker 1: no longer working for you, but a government that believes
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Speaker 1: that they own you, and a government believes that they
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Speaker 1: can take anything they want from you. You may not
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Speaker 1: have heard about this story, or maybe you have, but
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Speaker 1: I think it's a perfect way to put this election
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Speaker 1: into perspective.
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Speaker 2: There was a squirrel, a.
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Speaker 1: Squirrel I can't even believe him having this conversation that
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Speaker 1: was an Internet sensation, had its own Instagram page help
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Speaker 1: raise money for other animals, and peanut the squirrel was
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Speaker 1: clearly being well taken care of by a family. This
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Speaker 1: squirrel has been euthanized after there was a raid on
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Speaker 1: the home of the owner of this squirrel, who also
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Speaker 1: had a quote pet raccoon, and high profile conservatives and
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Speaker 1: Trumps supporters, including Elon Namusk, have galvanized around the death
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Speaker 1: of this Internet famous squirrel. Following New York State's Authority's
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Speaker 1: decision to euthanize the animal, using this incident to make
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Speaker 1: the perfect point that this is extreme government overreached just
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Speaker 1: one day before the election. A government that goes after
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Speaker 1: the owner of a pet squirrel, a pet squirrel that
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Speaker 1: in every video you can clearly tell is being well
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Speaker 1: taken care of and is helping raise money for other animals.
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Speaker 1: And you go in and you raith the homeowner of
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Speaker 1: this squirrel because you want to show them that you're
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Speaker 1: the government, and then you euthanize this pet squirrel. This
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Speaker 1: tells you how you know the government is not working
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Speaker 1: for you. Newsweek had this headline, how Peanut the squirrel
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Speaker 1: became the center of a MAGA firestorm. Yeah, because we
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Speaker 1: understand when government is out of control. They're not rating
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Speaker 1: the home of MS thirteen gang members. They're not raiding
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Speaker 1: the home of child rapists or murderers. They're not raiding
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Speaker 1: the homes of those they're committing hands crimes. No, they're
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Speaker 1: raiding the home of former presidents like Donald Trump, his allies,
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Speaker 1: and a dude that has a pet squirrel.
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Speaker 2: Newsweek put it this way.
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Speaker 1: The decision of New York Wildlife officials to euthanize a
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Speaker 1: squirrel named Peanut who was famous on social media, has
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Speaker 1: ignited a firestorm response from MAGA Republicans claiming government overreach.
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Speaker 1: If this isn't government overreach, I don't know what is.
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Speaker 1: Peanut and his owner, a thirty four year old a
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Speaker 1: guy by the name of Mark, was devastated when New
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Speaker 1: York State officials seized and euthanized the squirrel, as well
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Speaker 1: as fred, a raccoon that he had rescued. The authorities
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Speaker 1: came to his Pine City, New York home after an
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Speaker 1: anonymous complaint about the animal's quote living conditions. The two
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Speaker 1: animals were featured on the Instagram account Peanut the Squirrel
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Speaker 1: This Guy Wasn't Hiding It, which currently had six hundred
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Speaker 1: ninety two thousand followers. The man who cared for Peanut
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Speaker 1: for seven years after he rescued the squirrel after witnessing
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Speaker 1: its mother being struck by a car in New York City.
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Speaker 1: Instagram page included videos of the squirrel doing tricks. On Friday,
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Speaker 1: the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, a part
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Speaker 1: of the state's government, they seized the raccoon and the
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Speaker 1: squirrel sharing a residence with humans, creating the potential for
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Speaker 1: human exposure to rabies, they claimed. In addition, a person
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Speaker 1: involved with the investigation was bitten by the squirrel. They said, well, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you're stealing it away from its family to test for rabies.
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Speaker 1: Both animals were quote unquote ethanized. The animals are being
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Speaker 1: tested for rabies, and anyone who had been in contact
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Speaker 1: with these animals is strongly encouraged to quote consult their physician,
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Speaker 1: they claim. They added that the County Department of Health
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Speaker 1: and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation are
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Speaker 1: coordinating to ensure the protection of public health related to
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Speaker 1: the illegal possession of wild animals that had the potential
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Speaker 1: to carry the rabies virus. On Sunday, former President Trump
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Speaker 1: running mate JD. Vance sold a crowd a Stanford, North
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Speaker 1: Carolina rally that Trump was fired up about the death
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Speaker 1: of the squirrel. He was like, you know, it's really
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Speaker 1: the case that the Democrats murdered the Elon Musk of squirrels,
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Speaker 1: Vance added, tech billionaire Musk, who was endorsing Donald Trump,
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Speaker 1: wrote on as this vote for peanut, vote for liberty,
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Speaker 1: for freedom. The post has now been viewed more than
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Speaker 1: thirty five million times and has garnered over two hundred
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Speaker 1: and fifty five thousand likes. You want to know why.
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Speaker 1: This is the sad part about this closing argument about
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Speaker 1: why you shoot up and vote, Because we have a
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Speaker 1: government now that will raid the home of a dude
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Speaker 1: that had a pet that became famous, But they won't
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Speaker 1: raid the home of the terrorists that are on the
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Speaker 1: terrorists watch lists that have broken into this country, the
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Speaker 1: MS thirteen gang members that are taking over apartment complexes
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Speaker 1: and breaking into homes. They won't raid into the homes
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Speaker 1: of squatters who have taken over the homes of American
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Speaker 1: citizens Because they don't care about you. They do care
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Speaker 1: about controlling you. They care about controlling every aspect of
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Speaker 1: your life. This is what dictators and tyrants do. They
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Speaker 1: try to control every aspect of your life. We are
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Speaker 1: less than twenty four hours away from election day, voting beginning.
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Speaker 2: The question is what does it look like now nationwide?
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Speaker 1: Does it look across the state, and what can you
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Speaker 1: expect tomorrow and how important is for you to go
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Speaker 1: and vote. Joining me now to talk about this is
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Speaker 1: US Senator Marsha Blackburn from Tennessee.
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Speaker 2: Senator always a pleasure to chat with you.
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Speaker 1: I've got a lot of questions for you this morning
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Speaker 1: that many Americans I know are worried about. So let's
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Speaker 1: start at the national level. You obviously are tight with
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump involved with the campaign. What is your gut
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Speaker 1: going in tomorrow with the presidential and then we're going
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Speaker 1: to work our way down.
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Speaker 5: Yes, and the press event has done well in polling.
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Speaker 5: We know that he gets a vote total higher than
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Speaker 5: what he polls, and we are excited for him for tomorrow.
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Speaker 5: He is in good spirit. He is campaigning up to
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Speaker 5: the last minute, and you're going to see him give
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Speaker 5: it all the energy he's got.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about Tennessee and the issues here are affecting people.
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Speaker 1: What is going to drive people the polls. I think
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Speaker 1: it's the economy. I go back to, it's the economy stupid.
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Speaker 1: It's the economy stupid. It's the economy stupid. That's what
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Speaker 1: matters to Tennesseeans the most. Is the economy first and foremost.
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Speaker 1: And we saw these shocking numbers that the lowest job
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Speaker 1: creation was in October. There were more legal immigrants that
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Speaker 1: came to this country than Americans got jobs. They were
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Speaker 1: expecting one hundred and thirteen thousand jobs to be added.
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Speaker 1: Only twelve thousand were added. That's the lowest month ever
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Speaker 1: for Biden Harris with Bidenomics and Harris's agenda, and that
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Speaker 1: is affecting Tennesseeans in a very big way.
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Speaker 5: You're right about that. And the economy and inflation, You're
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Speaker 5: exactly right. That is issue number one. And as we
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Speaker 5: are in and out of each of our ninety five counties,
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Speaker 5: that is what we are hearing. This inflation rate. You know,
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Speaker 5: when you look at the fact that when Donald Trump
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Speaker 5: left office, inflation was one point four percent, and today
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Speaker 5: that cumulative inflation rate is twenty and a half percent.
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Speaker 5: Tennessees are Tennesseeans are spending oney twenty three dollars more
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Speaker 5: each month to buy the same basket of goods that
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Speaker 5: they were buying in October of twenty twenty. That is
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Speaker 5: the impact of Biden Harris and their economic policies which
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Speaker 5: are not working for hardworking people.
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Speaker 1: Your website, one of the things I found was very
23:03
Speaker 1: interesting on there was that you have the US national
23:06
Speaker 1: debt cock up. I haven't seen that on many other
23:10
Speaker 1: campaign websites, and it says and you have up there
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Speaker 1: with the US debt now thirty four plus trillion, it's
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Speaker 1: now thirty five trillion and soaring. You are committed ending
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Speaker 1: the Democratic debt disaster. What would change if the Republicans
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Speaker 1: gain control of the Senate. Obviously Democrats doing everything they
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Speaker 1: can to make sure that doesn't happen, But there hasn't
23:32
Speaker 1: been a lot of indications in the past, and this
23:34
Speaker 1: is a criticism of Conservatives, that we've done enough to
23:37
Speaker 1: stop out of control government spending. Do you believe there's
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Speaker 1: a political willpower there now that if Republicans get control
23:44
Speaker 1: of the Senate, that will actually be able to do
23:47
Speaker 1: something about the national debt.
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Speaker 5: I do think you'll see something done about the national debt.
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Speaker 5: And then, as you said, this is something that is
23:56
Speaker 5: just racing now with President Donald Trump, you will see
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Speaker 5: day one action that would freeze federal spending, federal hiring,
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Speaker 5: federal salaries, and then you would start to work it
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Speaker 5: down from there. Of course, as you know, I do
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Speaker 5: three pieces of legislation every year. One that calls for
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Speaker 5: a one percent across the board spending cut, which is
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Speaker 5: what is referred to many times as the Penny Plan,
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Speaker 5: another a two percent, and the third one is a
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Speaker 5: five percent across the board spending cut. Now, if you
24:33
Speaker 5: did that over a period of ten years, you would
24:38
Speaker 5: get that budget close to balancing. And that's what Americans
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Speaker 5: want to see, is a balance budget. We have it
24:46
Speaker 5: in our state, Companies that do it, families that do it,
24:51
Speaker 5: and people want to see this spending brought under control.
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Speaker 2: Let's talk crime for a moment.
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Speaker 1: It used to be that it was a border state
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Speaker 1: issue with illegal immigrant violent crime. The headlines I read
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Speaker 1: them earlier on the show just show you how bad
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Speaker 1: it is. And this is in the last you know,
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Speaker 1: several days you had an illegal immigrant that was arrested
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Speaker 1: in New York for the rape of a five year
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Speaker 1: old child. You have a Hunduran illegal immigrant and an
25:17
Speaker 1: MS thirteen gang member on the run after shooting at
25:21
Speaker 1: a Maryland hotel that left another team dead. This is
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Speaker 1: and I go far away to prove you know, New
25:27
Speaker 1: York is not by the border. Maryland's not by the border.
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Speaker 1: We have real problems in Tennessee as well with illegal
25:33
Speaker 1: immigrants that are committing crimes. What will change there as
25:38
Speaker 1: well if we actually get a Republican majority and Donald
25:41
Speaker 1: Trump elected.
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Speaker 5: But you'll see as attention to actually securing that border.
25:46
Speaker 5: Kamala Harris's border policy has been an open border, and
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Speaker 5: she would continue that. You know, they have done everything
25:55
Speaker 5: they could possibly do to make illegal immigration legal, and
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Speaker 5: they have turned every state into a border state, every
26:05
Speaker 5: town into a border town, and been like you're saying,
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Speaker 5: you see these crimes that are committed far from the border,
26:14
Speaker 5: and it is the loss of life to fentanyl and drugs.
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Speaker 5: It is angel families that have lost loved ones to
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Speaker 5: acts of violence and crime committed by people that have
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Speaker 5: illegally entered the country. And my bill, the Clear Act,
26:33
Speaker 5: is the spot to begin because it would allow local
26:37
Speaker 5: law enforcement to detain these criminal illegaliens and require ICE
26:44
Speaker 5: to come and deport them. So that is the place
26:48
Speaker 5: to start, and that is what people want to see.
26:52
Speaker 5: The border and crime in our communities. These are top issues.
26:57
Speaker 5: These gangs that are working in our town and cities
27:00
Speaker 5: and recruiting kids to go out and carry out carjackings
27:05
Speaker 5: and smash and grabs. People want to stop. They want
27:09
Speaker 5: these individuals to be prosecuted. They want these criminal illegal
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Speaker 5: aliens removed from our communities.
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Speaker 1: Well, finally, let's talk about how the media has been
27:21
Speaker 1: covering this election. I love that NBC News finally got busted.
27:24
Speaker 1: They had Kama Harris on Saturday Night Live. The SEC
27:28
Speaker 1: it was an issue with equal time. They were forced
27:30
Speaker 1: to give Donald Trump campaign time with an ad during
27:34
Speaker 1: NASCAR and then during Sunday Night Football. It is shocking
27:39
Speaker 1: to see how now they're claiming that Donald Trump said
27:42
Speaker 1: that Liz Cheney should be executed in front of a
27:44
Speaker 1: firing squad.
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Speaker 2: It's not what he said.
27:46
Speaker 1: I played the clip earlier, clearly not even close to
27:48
Speaker 1: what he said. We saw water Wall coverage all weekend
27:51
Speaker 1: on that. The closing argument for them is not the economy,
27:56
Speaker 1: it's not national security, it's not ending the war in Ukraine,
27:59
Speaker 1: and in the war that we're seeing with in Israel
28:02
Speaker 1: with the terrorists that they're backing and Iran. What we're
28:05
Speaker 1: seeing right now is they're still just going back to
28:08
Speaker 1: the basic talking point that Orange Man is bad and
28:12
Speaker 1: that he's a dictator and a tyrant. He wants to
28:14
Speaker 1: kill his political opponents. Meanwhile, he's the guy the two
28:17
Speaker 1: assassins have tried to take out in the last several months,
28:19
Speaker 1: which the media has seemed to completely forget about.
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Speaker 5: And you're so right about that. They have nothing that
28:26
Speaker 5: is worked. The campaign of joy evaporated before their very eyes.
28:32
Speaker 5: People didn't buy it. So then it was going to
28:34
Speaker 5: be let's give you twenty five thousand dollars to buy
28:37
Speaker 5: a house, fifty thousand dollars if you'll start a small business.
28:42
Speaker 5: That evaporated on them. They had no plan for the border.
28:46
Speaker 5: There is no plan for how to deal with the
28:49
Speaker 5: Middle East, or to deal with China or Russia. And
28:55
Speaker 5: if people are saying, what is your plan, there isn't one.
28:58
Speaker 5: So their plan is is what's a double down on smellie,
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Speaker 5: Walmart shoppers, deplorables, irredeemables, Nazi racists and fascists, and.
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Speaker 2: Crash, don't forget trash.
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Speaker 5: It's terrible. I know, we're garbage. We're just absolute garbage.
29:18
Speaker 5: So that is their closing argument, and this is all
29:24
Speaker 5: that they can go to because they have nothing to
29:27
Speaker 5: offer the American people.
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Speaker 2: Final question for you.
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Speaker 1: If somebody's listening right now and they're sitting on the
29:34
Speaker 1: fence and they're like, does my vote really matter? Show
29:36
Speaker 1: I spend the time to vote, what would you say
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Speaker 1: to them.
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Speaker 5: Oh, number one, get to the poll and vote. It
29:43
Speaker 5: does matter. You want President Donald Trump to win the
29:46
Speaker 5: popular vote as well as the electoral College. And you
29:51
Speaker 5: also want our Republican Statehouse and State Senate candidates to
29:56
Speaker 5: window seats by comfortable majorities. Want to go back to
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Speaker 5: the US Senate. I ask for the vote of each
30:03
Speaker 5: of your listeners, and we want to have a good
30:06
Speaker 5: margin in my race.
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Speaker 1: Senator, always a pleasure, good luck on election day. I
30:12
Speaker 1: have a feeling we're going to have you back right
30:14
Speaker 1: after election day and celebrate a little bit, so good luck.
30:16
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30:18
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