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"Only a Handful" of Apartment Complexes Taken over by Venezuelan Gangs is No Big Deal Media Says, plus Where Does The Presidential Race Stand? · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome in his verdict with Center Ted Cruz ben Ferguson
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Speaker 1: with you, Senator, there is an amazing thing that's happening
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Speaker 1: right now in this country, and it is apparently, you
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Speaker 1: shouldn't be worried about Venezuelan gang members if they take
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Speaker 1: over like entire apartment complexes and start, you know, terrorizing
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Speaker 1: the residents, kicking them out, changing the locks, then charging rent,
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Speaker 1: taking over the building from the owners, and that's something
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Speaker 1: not to be concerned about. You're only supposed to be
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Speaker 1: concerned if they take over your entire city, says at
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Speaker 1: least ABC.
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Speaker 2: Well, we're seeing skyrocketing crime from illegal alien criminals that
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Speaker 2: are being released by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, including
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Speaker 2: a surge in Venezuelan crime. Venezuela Maduro is emptying out
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Speaker 2: his jails, and in particular, we're seeing Venezuelan gang members
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Speaker 2: committing crimes, committing crimes in Texas, taking over apartment complexes,
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Speaker 2: and the media, of course, is doing everything they can
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Speaker 2: to dismiss it and say there's nothing here to see,
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Speaker 1: start by reminding people about this story and how it began.
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Speaker 1: Venezuela and gang started taking over these apartment complexes. It
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Speaker 1: happened in, for example, in Colorado. First, police are now
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Speaker 1: warning of Venezuelan gang crime in places as far away
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Speaker 1: as Wisconsin, and the media is trying to act like
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Speaker 1: this isn't even happening.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's happened in Chicago, it's happened in San Antonio, Texas.
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Speaker 2: And last week on the pod we covered two instances
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Speaker 2: of riff crime here in Texas. One in Dallas, the
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Speaker 2: woman who in her home for Venezuelan illegal immigrants broke
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Speaker 2: into her home, held her at gunpoint, tied her up,
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Speaker 2: pistol whipped her with their pistols, threatened to cut her
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Speaker 2: fingers off, and ropped her. And mind you that these Venezuelans,
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Speaker 2: they could speak no English. They were actually using Google
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Speaker 2: Translate on their phone to issue their orders. And it
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Speaker 2: was just dumb luck that one of them left a
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Speaker 2: fingerprint in the house that enabled them to be apprehended.
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Speaker 2: We also know in Houston, Jocelyn Hungary, the beautiful twelve
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Speaker 2: year old girl raped and murdered by two illegal aliens,
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Speaker 2: whom Joe Biden and Kamala Harris released, they hadn't in
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Speaker 2: their custody. They released them the very same day they
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Speaker 2: apprehended them. When we now have reports that at least
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Speaker 2: one of those two child rapist and murderers was a
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Speaker 2: gang member from Venezuela as well. And then this story
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Speaker 2: that broke this past week entitled Alleged Venezuelan gang members
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Speaker 2: arrested in Houston, San Antonio. Dallas police also say there
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Speaker 2: has been gang activity in North Dallas linked to the
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Speaker 2: trend Deer Aragua gang, and let me read to you
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Speaker 2: from the Dallas Morning News. Authorities in Houston and San
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Speaker 2: Antonio have announced the arrest of multiple people that said
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Speaker 2: to have ties to the trender Aragua, a Venezuelan gang
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Speaker 2: recently declared a terrorist organization by Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
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Speaker 2: Dallas Police have also said the department has had gang
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Speaker 2: activity in the North Dallas area tied to the gang
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Speaker 2: and is collaborating with other agencies to address crimes linked
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Speaker 2: to the trend aer Ragua and other gangs. According to
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Speaker 2: a Texas Department of Public Safety news release, a DPS
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Speaker 2: agent assigned to the Houston Anti Gang Center was notified
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Speaker 2: of a suspected Trendurragua member living in the Houston area.
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Speaker 2: The investigation that led to the investigators to Jorgan's Robertson Coba,
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Speaker 2: thirty two, who was wanted out of Paarland for theft.
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Speaker 2: The release said. Robertson Cova, who DPS said as a
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Speaker 2: confirmed trend Aragua member, was booked in the Brassoria County
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Speaker 2: Jail Monday on a theft charge. He remained in jail
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Speaker 2: Tuesday on a five thousand dollars bond. Police said they
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Speaker 2: were able to link robertson COVID to the trender Aragua
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Speaker 2: due to his tattoos, including a five point crown and
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Speaker 2: a rose, which police said or known TDA markings. The
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Speaker 2: arrest comes days after multiple police agencies conducted a raid
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Speaker 2: at an apartment complex in San Antonio on Saturday, arresting
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Speaker 2: nineteen people, four of whom are alleged to be members
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Speaker 2: of trendur Arragua. According to the San Antonio Express News,
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Speaker 2: the raid was conducted by the San Antonio Police DPS,
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Speaker 2: the FBI Border Patrol, and the US Department of Homeland Security.
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Speaker 2: Of those arrested, sixteen were Venezuelan citizens and three were
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Speaker 2: US citizens. The Venezuelan citizens were taken into custody by
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Speaker 2: US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Removal Operation agents after they
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Speaker 2: were processed at the Bear County Sheriff's office. This is
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Speaker 2: happening every single day. It is getting more and more
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Speaker 2: dangerous and trendi Agua originated as a South American prison gang,
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Speaker 2: and we are seeing more and more Texans and more
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Speaker 2: and more Americans across the country endangered because Joe Buden
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Speaker 2: and Kamala Harrison, the Democrats keep practicing catch and release
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Speaker 2: and releasing violent criminal gang members who wor illegal aliens.
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Speaker 1: By the way, the media is really trying to downplay this.
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Speaker 1: And there's a perfect example of this happening Sunday. We're
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Speaker 1: weeks away from the election, and on TV there was
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Speaker 1: a moment, and it was a moment where ABC was
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Speaker 1: interviewing the VP candidate at one of your colleagues incident,
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Speaker 1: Jeddie Vance, and they said that, well, you guys are
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Speaker 1: basically spreading misinformation misinformation about Venezuelan gangs, and she tried
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Speaker 1: to act like it is not a problem that is
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Speaker 1: quote taking over cities Trump described it because they haven't
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Speaker 1: actually taken over entire cities. They're just taking over entire
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Speaker 1: apartment buildings. Take a listen to this back and forth,
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Speaker 1: and this is what state sponsored media does when they
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Speaker 1: have a fix in for a kid that they're obsessed
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Speaker 1: with that.
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Speaker 3: It's a fact that Donator de Vantel, I'm just going
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Speaker 3: to say that local officials, local officials, and theme officials
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Speaker 3: say that is just flat wrong. But I want to
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Speaker 3: we play some other comments about migrants migrants, including an
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Speaker 3: Aurora in Colorado, where Trump said the city had been
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Speaker 3: invaded and conquered by Venezuelan gangs. The Republican mayor of
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Speaker 3: the city said, flatly, the city and state have not
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Speaker 3: been taken over or invaded or occupied by migrant gangs.
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Speaker 3: So do you support Donald Trump making those claims that
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Speaker 3: the Republican mayor says, we're grossly exaggerated and have hurt
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Speaker 3: the city's identity and sense of safety. I understand what
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Speaker 3: you're saying, that some people left behind, but he's making
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Speaker 3: these statements that the mayor is flat out disputing.
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Speaker 4: Well, Martha, you just said the mayor said they were exaggerated, exaggerated,
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Speaker 4: there's got to be some That means there's got to
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Speaker 4: be some element of truth here.
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Speaker 5: And of course President Trump.
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Speaker 4: Was actually in Aurora, Colorado talking to people on the ground,
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Speaker 4: and what we're hearing, of course, Martha, is that people
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Speaker 4: are terrified by what has.
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Speaker 5: Happened with some of these Venezuelan gangs. Sender evance.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to stop you because I know exactly what happened.
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Speaker 6: I'm going to stop you.
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Speaker 3: The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment CONFLICTX
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Speaker 3: apartment complexes, and the mayor said, our dedicated police officers
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Speaker 3: have acted on those concerns a handful of problems.
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Speaker 5: Only, Martha, do you hear yourself?
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Speaker 4: Only a handful of apartment complexes in America were taken
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Speaker 4: over by Venezuelan gangs. And Donald Trump is the problem
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Speaker 4: and not Kamala Harris's open border. Americans are so fed
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Speaker 4: up with what's going on, and they have every right
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Speaker 4: to be. And I really find this exchange, Martha is
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Speaker 4: sort of interesting because you seem to be more focused
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Speaker 4: with nitpicking everything that Donald Trump has said, rather than
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Speaker 4: acknowledging that apartment complexes in the United States of America
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Speaker 4: are being taken over by violent gangs. I worry so
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Speaker 4: much more about that problem than anything else here. We've
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Speaker 4: got to get American communities in a safe space again.
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Speaker 4: And unfortunately, when you let people in by the millions,
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Speaker 4: most of whom are unvetted, most of whom you don't
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Speaker 4: know who they really are, you're going to have problems
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Speaker 4: like this. Kamala Harris ninety four executive orders that undid
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Speaker 4: Donald Trump's successful border policies. We knew this stuff would happen.
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Speaker 4: Let's ragged about opening the border, and now we have
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Speaker 4: the consequences and we're living with it. We can do
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Speaker 4: so much better, but frankly, we're not going to do
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Speaker 4: better Martha unless Donald Trump calls this stuff out.
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Speaker 5: I'm glad that he did.
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Speaker 3: Okay, let's just end that with They did not invade
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Speaker 3: or take over the city, as Donald Trump said.
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Speaker 5: I want to move on.
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Speaker 4: To a few apartment complexes, no big deal.
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Speaker 3: A few apartment complexes that the mayor did not seem
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Speaker 3: was invading the entire city.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's amazing that they're actually saying this with
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Speaker 1: a straight face, that a couple apartment complexes taken over
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Speaker 1: by criminal gangs from Venezuela is apparently supposed to be
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Speaker 1: normalized and is no big deal in America today.
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Speaker 2: So I'm actually surprised that Martha Ratits didn't finish her
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Speaker 2: questioning with I'm Kamala Harris, and I approved this message.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it was pure naked propaganda for the Democrats.
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Speaker 2: It's only a handful of complexes, you know. Now, mind you,
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Speaker 2: if you happen to live in one of those apartment
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Speaker 2: complexes that has been taken over by Venezuelan gangs that
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Speaker 2: are controlling it and terrorizing it, maybe it's a problem
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Speaker 2: for you. But you know, I mean, where the media,
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Speaker 2: what do we care about the pesky little people that
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Speaker 2: live in apartments. They don't really matter, you know what.
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Speaker 2: Martha Ratits has a very very nice home in DC.
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Speaker 2: She lives very very comfortably, So not a problem for
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Speaker 2: her if some little people have to deal with these criminals.
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Speaker 2: I mean, what an arrogant, out of touch comment. Only
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Speaker 2: a handful of apartment complexes have been taken over by
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Speaker 2: Venezuelan gangs, and she says no big deal look, I
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Speaker 2: think ABC looks utterly ridiculous in that exchange.
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Speaker 1: The other thing I think it tells you is the
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Speaker 1: fact that they believe in the idea that these gangs
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Speaker 1: should be here, and as long as they're not taking
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Speaker 1: over entire city, we're not even going to be concerned
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Speaker 1: or fight for the people. You remember when news and
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Speaker 1: some do it locally, But remember when news used to
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Speaker 1: like be the ones that would stand up for one
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Speaker 1: American where there was injustice being done in an apartment complex,
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Speaker 1: whether it was a slum ward or something like that,
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Speaker 1: or laws were being broken and quality of life was
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Speaker 1: being affected, right, they would go on TV and they
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Speaker 1: would like do a ten o'clock news story standing up
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Speaker 1: for the little guy who's standing up for the people
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Speaker 1: whose lives have been uprooted, who are being attacked. A
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Speaker 1: great example of this is there was an interview done
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Speaker 1: this week where, and I'm going to quote one of
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Speaker 1: the people that lived in the apartment complex put it
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Speaker 1: this way. They brought their country with them. They brought
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Speaker 1: the terror of living in Venezuela and gang run apartment
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Speaker 1: complex is saying no one is helping them out. An
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Speaker 1: alleged apartment takeover who quote by Venezuelan gang members in
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Speaker 1: Colorado has elevated the issue of migrant crime, and viral
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Speaker 1: video captured by the error apartment tenants has refuted attempts
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Speaker 1: by politicians and establishment media to downplay or deny that
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Speaker 1: there is actually a threat. Cindy Romeo, whose video of
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Speaker 1: armed members of Venezuelan gang patrolling and forcing her out
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Speaker 1: of her building made news, right, this is how we
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Speaker 1: know about all this, But she said, the part of
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Speaker 1: the story that people are missing is that for months
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Speaker 1: they were contacting local police and local elected officials about
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Speaker 1: the takeover as it was happening, and no one stopped it.
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Speaker 1: She said, we pleaded for months to law enforcement, pleaded
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Speaker 1: for months to elected officials for help, but those pleas
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Speaker 1: were met with a mix of a denial be in
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Speaker 1: difference and sympathetic inaction. She said, the gangs figured it
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Speaker 1: out they can continue to grow their influence inside of
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Speaker 1: her apartment complex. They forced people out by threatening them
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Speaker 1: by shooting their cars up and then bringing motorcycles into
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Speaker 1: the hallways to wake them up while they slept, until
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Speaker 1: they finally moved out. They changed the locks, and they
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Speaker 1: brought int illegals and they charged them rent. That's what
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Speaker 1: she said, is a takeover in how it happened. And
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Speaker 1: she said the worst part is everyone in the local
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Speaker 1: media acted like what we were dealing with didn't matter.
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Speaker 2: Well, and it's worse than that. There's not a single
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Speaker 2: elected Democrat that gives a flip. And that seems extreme,
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Speaker 2: but if they care, they do something about it. They're
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Speaker 2: not concerned about the victims of crime. And by the way,
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Speaker 2: many of the victims of crime, by the least, illegal
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Speaker 2: immigrants are themselves Hispanic or are African American. Because these
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Speaker 2: illegal immigrants are frequently going to low income areas that
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Speaker 2: often have a significantly higher minority population. Jocelyn Nungary was
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Speaker 2: a young Hispanic girl that that tragically is a pattern
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Speaker 2: we've seen over and over and over again, which is
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Speaker 2: the victims of murder, the victims of rape, the victims
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Speaker 2: of child rape are frequently the most vulnerable among us.
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Speaker 2: And you know, the Democrats are big on saying they
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Speaker 2: love to emote, they love to care, but if they cared,
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Speaker 2: they would do something about this. I mean, let me
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Speaker 2: ask you, Ben, have you seen a single Democrat saying
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Speaker 2: it is unacceptable to have an apartment complex or multiple
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Speaker 2: apartment complelexes, or let's use Martha Raditz's phrase, a handful
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Speaker 2: of apartment complexes taken over by violent Venezuelan gang. Have
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Speaker 2: you seen even one Democrat saying that?
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Speaker 1: No, and not only that as the woman that was
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Speaker 1: living in this apartment complex, but she said, quote, how
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Speaker 1: many gang members living right outside your door is okay?
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Speaker 1: How many gun guns right outside your door is okay?
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Speaker 1: How many motorcycles reving their engines in the middle of
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Speaker 1: the night to wake you up and your kids up
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Speaker 1: is okay.
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Speaker 2: Well, the media doesn't want you to know about it.
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Speaker 2: If they want to dismiss it, if they want to
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Speaker 2: mock at it, they want to laugh at laugh at it.
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Speaker 2: And I'll tell you look, that's one of the reasons
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Speaker 2: why moving on to our second story, where is the
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Speaker 2: presidential race right now? If you look at the real
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Speaker 2: clear politics averages of polling right now, if the election
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Speaker 2: happened right now, Donald Trump would get three hundred and
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Speaker 2: two electoral votes and Kamala Harris would get two hundred
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Speaker 2: and thirty six. That's based on the current averages. It
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Speaker 2: doesn't necessarily means that mean that's where we'll be, but
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Speaker 2: Let's break down what is the battleground and by the
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Speaker 2: have particular polls that are outliers, the averages cut them out.
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Speaker 2: So let's start with Arizona. Arizona, the Real Clear Politics
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Speaker 2: average is Trump plus zero point five. Nevada, the Real
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Speaker 2: Clear Politics average is Trump plus zero point two. Wisconsin,
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Speaker 2: average is Trump plus zero point nine. Pennsylvania the average
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Speaker 2: Trump plus zero point five. Now, one thing that's important
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18:01
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Speaker 1: let's talk about the polls. And you mentioned that there's
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Speaker 1: a chance that Donald Trump can really win this thing.
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Speaker 1: I look at the trends right now, and when you
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Speaker 1: see Saturday Night Live, for example, making fun of Kamala Harris,
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Speaker 1: you gotta may ask yourself the Question Center. Are they
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Speaker 1: starting to hedge their bets a little bit, maybe as
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Speaker 1: she lost her mojo? Or maybe did they just they
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Speaker 1: weren't able to fake out enough Americans to believe she's
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Speaker 1: somehow this great candidate.
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Speaker 2: Well, give a listen right now to S and L
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Speaker 2: turning on Kama. It's really quite remarkable. They never turned
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Speaker 2: on Barack Obama. They were very reluctant to turn on
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Speaker 2: Joe Biden. But it's interesting that we've really seen the
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Speaker 2: late night comics recognizing just how absurd of a candidate
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Speaker 2: she is.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they do this family feud. If you don't know
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Speaker 1: the game show, or if you want you to have
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Speaker 1: reference here, family feud. They do a mock up of that,
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Speaker 1: and it's the quote Republicans against the Democrats. And not
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Speaker 1: only do they make fun of Kamala, they make fun
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Speaker 1: of like the entire Democratic Party and Joe Biden. Take
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Speaker 1: a listen.
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Speaker 7: All right, letters the game Okay, one hundred people survey,
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Speaker 7: Top six answers on the board. Name something that you're
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Speaker 7: keeping your glove compartment BP, Harris Steve.
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Speaker 6: Look, I was raised in a middle class family.
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Speaker 5: All right, or here are we going?
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Speaker 6: Okay? My mother raised my sister and me. All right,
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Speaker 6: she worked hard and saved up, and we had a
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Speaker 6: second mother too.
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Speaker 7: Okay, did that mother have a glove compartment?
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Speaker 6: A small business owner named miss Shelton?
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Speaker 7: Okay, we got that something that you keep in your
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Speaker 7: block compartment?
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Speaker 8: Oh a glock?
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Speaker 6: See if a big oldclock?
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Speaker 7: Oh oh stap okay, so you strapped like that? All right,
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Speaker 7: show me the blip blam dickey. All right, number two answer.
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Speaker 7: The Democrats is controlling the board. Let's go on, all right,
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Speaker 7: Doug imam Off. Name something that you keep in your
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Speaker 7: glove compartment.
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Speaker 5: Oh wow, I mean I can't top that. It was
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Speaker 5: so perfect. I'll go with the same answer. Steve a glock.
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Speaker 7: Man, you want to give you the same answer. It
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Speaker 7: seemed like a bad strategy. But show me another blip
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Speaker 7: blam Dicke. That's Crainy a second god. That's the number
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Speaker 7: one answer. Damn America. All right, let's go over to
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Speaker 7: Tim Walts. Okay, something that you're keeping your glove a puppet.
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Speaker 5: This is right in my wheelhouse, in my glovebox.
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Speaker 1: I got hot hands napkins from Ronza, and gotta have
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Speaker 1: tombs in case I eat something spicy like Tomato.
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Speaker 7: If you say so, show me some white nonsense. Sorry,
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Speaker 7: not up there. Let's go over the president. Joe bidden
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Speaker 7: something that you're keeping your glovebox.
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Speaker 5: I like to buy a vow.
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Speaker 7: That is.
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Speaker 5: That's the wrong game.
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Speaker 9: Plea, Come on, Conan, what are you doing.
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Speaker 5: It's me.
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Speaker 9: I'm still the president. I'm Joe, I'm maybe older. Beat
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Speaker 9: the hell out of you, Papya. I'll give you an
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Speaker 9: uncle sandwich. You know how to do it. I can
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Speaker 9: make sandwiches. And guess what, here's the deal. I'm not
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Speaker 9: the old one now. Trump is the only difference. I
23:52
Speaker 9: know when to walk away about six months too late.
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Speaker 7: Okay, show me whatever that was.
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Speaker 5: I mean center.
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Speaker 1: I was dying laughing when this actually happened, because I
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Speaker 1: got to see it on Saturday. I'm in real time,
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Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh my gosh. They're they're hedging their
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Speaker 1: bets right now. And not only were they making fun
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Speaker 1: of Kama, but they put the guy that they're basically
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Speaker 1: saying should have been given the VP candidacy ahead of
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Speaker 1: of wal two. They add at third in line next
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Speaker 1: to Joe Biden, like they were sending all the signals
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Speaker 1: that hey, maybe this isn't gonna work out.
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Speaker 2: Well, Look, they're they're clearly recognizing their problems and and
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Speaker 2: SNL making fun of Democrats that doesn't happen very often.
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Speaker 2: And it was actually funny one on one of the
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Speaker 2: few times SNL is funny. H And by the way,
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Speaker 2: I'm all for making fun of Republicans too. SNL has
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Speaker 2: made fun of Trump. They made fun of me a
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Speaker 2: lot of times that they It can certainly be funny
24:47
Speaker 2: making fun of Republicans, but when it's a one sided
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Speaker 2: partisan screed, it makes it a lot less interesting that
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Speaker 2: that was. That was pretty funny. But you know, it's
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Speaker 2: interesting NBC. It's not just their their their late night
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Speaker 2: comedy that's recognized that Kamala is in trouble. Take a
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Speaker 2: listen to what NBC said on Meet the Press on Sunday.
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Speaker 8: Vice President Kamala Harris had a five point lead in
25:08
Speaker 8: our last poll taken a month ago right after the debate.
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Speaker 8: That lead has all but evaporated.
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Speaker 6: Willie, take a look at.
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Speaker 8: This new head to head matchup forty eight percent to
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Speaker 8: forty eight percent. That is what we call a dead
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Speaker 8: locked race. It underscores what we all know that this
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Speaker 8: is tight, that the country is sharply divided. One of
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Speaker 8: the other big headlines here, people are viewing the Trump
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Speaker 8: presidency more favorably than the Biden presidency. Why is that significant?
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Speaker 5: We've seen the.
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Speaker 8: Vice president get pressed repeatedly on what she would do
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Speaker 8: differently than President Biden, and she's really struggled with that answer.
25:46
Speaker 8: We have new reporting that will roll out on the
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Speaker 8: show this morning, Willie taking us inside the Harris campaign
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Speaker 8: where there are discussions about changing her answer on that.
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Speaker 8: Can she draw a distinction on the Middle East, for example,
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Speaker 8: on immigration? All under discussion with this razor type race.
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Speaker 4: Really, and she continues to say, I am not Joe Biden,
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Speaker 4: but you're right, so we'll have to get more specific
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Speaker 4: here down there.
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Speaker 1: I mean, that is a panic if you are the
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Speaker 1: Democratic Party, Am I wrong?
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Speaker 5: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: You can hear them.
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Speaker 6: Oh gosh.
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Speaker 2: She says she's not Joe Biden, but everyone knows she is.
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Speaker 2: She's exactly the same. But she's got to say she'll
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Speaker 2: do something better like immigration, the thing she was in
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Speaker 2: charge of the last four years she was borders are
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Speaker 2: but no, no, no, she's president. Suddenly the open border
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Speaker 2: she was in charge of won't happen. That panic is
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Speaker 2: significant and listen. This race remains incredibly close, but there
26:41
Speaker 2: is reason to be a lot more optimistic today than
26:44
Speaker 2: was a month ago. The poll numbers are a lot
26:47
Speaker 2: more encouraging, and we got three weeks to go.
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Speaker 1: I want to move to another subject real quick, and
26:52
Speaker 1: this is the reason why we do this podcast is
26:55
Speaker 1: we get to bring you information that is not being covered,
26:58
Speaker 1: and this is important. There was a investigation that you
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Speaker 1: guys put together in Washington that revealed and you were
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Speaker 1: the leader on this, how the Biden Harris administration diverted
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Speaker 1: billions of dollars from scientific research to DEI activists. And
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Speaker 1: for people that are listening, let's start with this, remind
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Speaker 1: them what DEI stands for. And then this story that
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Speaker 1: is broken.
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Speaker 2: Well, DEI is diversity, equity and inclusion, and it is
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Speaker 2: the catchphrase of the woke left. And let me just
27:36
Speaker 2: give you the headline. Before Biden took office in twenty twenty,
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Speaker 2: less than one percent of the grants from the National
27:43
Speaker 2: Science Foundation were related to AAI DII. Today that number
27:48
Speaker 2: is greater than ten percent. So there has been a massive,
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Speaker 2: massive shift. Now what does that mean. Well, this past
27:55
Speaker 2: week I put out a report so as you know,
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Speaker 2: I'm the ranking member on the Senate Committee of Commerce, Science,
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Speaker 2: and Transportation. That means I'm the senior Republican on the
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Speaker 2: Commerce Committee. The Commerce Committee has jurisdiction over about forty
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Speaker 2: percent of the US economy, including science, and including the
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Speaker 2: National Science Foundation. So my team engaged in a systematic
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Speaker 2: study and we put out a report examining how the
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Speaker 2: National Science Foundation has increasingly politicized the use of taxpayer
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Speaker 2: dollars meant for scientific research. And the report shows that
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Speaker 2: in its first week, the Biden Harris administration mandated that
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Speaker 2: all taxpayer funded scientific research and development must incorporate diversity,
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Speaker 2: equity and inclusion DEI values. In response to this directive,
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Speaker 2: the National Science Foundation allocated over two point zero five
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Speaker 2: billion dollars over two billion dollars to thousands of research
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Speaker 2: that promoted neo Marxist perspectives or DEI tenants, and taxpayer
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Speaker 2: dollars supported these very questionable scientific studies used by researchers
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Speaker 2: to drive extreme ideologies in the classrooms and on their campuses.
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Speaker 2: And here are the top line numbers. Our analysis identified
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Speaker 2: three thousand, four hundred and eighty three groups, over ten
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Speaker 2: percent of all National Science Foundation grants during the Biden
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Speaker 2: Harris administration that went to questionable projects promoting DEI or
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Speaker 2: pushing neo Marxist perspectives about enduring class struggle, and our
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Speaker 2: investigation grouped these grants into five categories status, social justice, gender, race,
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Speaker 2: and environmental justice. So let me get let me give
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Speaker 2: you some of the examples. So Shirin Vosugi, who was
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Speaker 2: an associate professor of Learning Sciences at Northwestern University and
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Speaker 2: a co principal investigator for a one million, thirty four thousand,
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Speaker 2: seven hundred and fifty one dollars NSF grant award in
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty three for a project titled Quote Reimagining Educator
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Speaker 2: learning Pathways through story Work for Racial Equity in STEM
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Speaker 2: and Vosugi credits Marxist traditions for her decision to teach
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Speaker 2: Quilt children quote the meaning of genocide and apartheid after
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Speaker 2: Hamas's attack against Israel. One other example, in twenty twenty three,
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Speaker 2: NSF awarded Georgia Institute of Technologies Kelly Cross ninety nine,
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Speaker 2: seven hundred and ninety one dollars to quote disrupt racialized
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Speaker 2: privilege in the STEM classroom by acknowledging quote whiteness and
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Speaker 2: white supremacy are deeply ingrained in the past, present, and
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Speaker 2: future of US higher education. Cross saw to quote subvert
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Speaker 2: these toxic systems to create a more equitable education system
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Speaker 2: and to quote initiate a national conversation about addressing racial
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Speaker 2: inequity and white supremacy in the stem, profession and classroom.
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Speaker 2: This is what your taxpayers tax dollars are going towards.
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Speaker 1: How does this happen? Where they can divert this type
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Speaker 1: of funding at this level is the question I think
31:26
Speaker 1: most taxpayers would want to ask immediately. Like, I can
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Speaker 1: understand skimming somebody here there, but diverting billions from scientific
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Speaker 1: research to di two billion dollars, Yeah, two billion dollars
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Speaker 1: to DII activists. That's not where your tax dollurs are
31:41
Speaker 1: supposed to go. And by the way, I think you
31:43
Speaker 1: and I agree on this, I wouldn't want these funds
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Speaker 1: diverted to a conservative activist group either.
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Speaker 2: No, this is meant to be science, This is meant
31:53
Speaker 2: to be saving people's lives. Let me give you another example.
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Speaker 2: In twenty twenty two, NSF awarded San Jose State University
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Speaker 2: four hundred and one thousand, seven hundred and forty four
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Speaker 2: dollars for an ongoing project to quote transform science teaching
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Speaker 2: and learning through empowering teachers and students as climate justice
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Speaker 2: action researchers and change agents. The project is meant to
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Speaker 2: foster quote the development of a hub for justice centered
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Speaker 2: science education and will produce school based materials in professional
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Speaker 2: development activities that examine the interwoven nature of climate justice
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Speaker 2: and racial justice. Now who is in charge of this well?
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Speaker 2: The principal investigator was Tammy Visentainer, who sees her classroom
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Speaker 2: as a venue for social activism. In April twenty twenty four,
32:44
Speaker 2: Viscentainer wrote that her course Quote for aspiring middle and
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Speaker 2: high school teachers centers racial justice in science education, and
32:54
Speaker 2: at the end of her course, she showed her student's
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Speaker 2: photos of Israel dramp dropping pamphlets inside the Gaza Strip
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Speaker 2: to warn residents to move out of the way of
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Speaker 2: incoming rocket fire. This attainer, who claimed that Hamasa's October
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Speaker 2: terror attack needed to be contextualized, explained that the photos
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Speaker 2: quote creates spaces that engage complexity in promotion of shared
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Speaker 2: dignity and humanity to build bridges across differences, But she
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Speaker 2: didn't explain what the hell they had to do with science,
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Speaker 2: which is what a National Science Foundation grant is supposed
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Speaker 2: to be about.
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Speaker 1: this story that you obviously have broken uh, and it's
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Speaker 1: in the past, you'd have a lot of media that
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Speaker 1: just look the other way.
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Speaker 2: Well, there were a handful of stories, but they were
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Speaker 2: principally in conservative outlets because the actual corporate media doesn't
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Speaker 2: cover news. This news is in can the fact that
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Speaker 2: Kamala Harris and Joe Biden are funneling billions that's meant
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Speaker 2: to go to science, that's meant to save lives, that's
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Speaker 2: meant to promote like basic research, they're funneling it instead
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Speaker 2: to aggressively ideological, left wing activist zelots. They're using it
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Speaker 2: to corrupt students, to corrupt universities, to corrupt K through
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