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Were America’s Scientists Targeted? plus One‑Third of Voters Say Deport Them All & Newsom's Migrant Machine · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: I want to give you an update on a story
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  Speaker 1: we talked about several days ago, and that is there
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  Speaker 1: are some missing US scientists. Now, this is a story
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  Speaker 1: that has taken on a life of its own, as
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  Speaker 1: many on the Internet are freaking out and conspiracy theories
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  Speaker 1: are running rampant. This doesn't mean that there may not
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  Speaker 1: actually be some truth to this story. In general, we
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  Speaker 1: now are learning that the FBI is leading the investigation
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  Speaker 1: into the deaths or disappearances of scientists and staffers who
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  Speaker 1: worked at sensitive nuclear or space technology laboratories. Federal authorities
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  Speaker 1: have stepped in to determine whether any connections exist among
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  Speaker 1: at least ten different cases now involving individuals that are
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  Speaker 1: directly tied to what is described as high level research facilities.
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  Speaker 1: Now these facilities include places like NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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  Speaker 1: and the Lows Alamos National Laboratory. In a statement, the
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  Speaker 1: FBI confirmed that it is spearheading the effort in coordination
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  Speaker 1: with the Department of Energy, the Department of War, and State,
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  Speaker 1: as well as local law enforcement agencies. All this coming
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  Speaker 1: now from CBS News.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: This move signals a heightened federal response after growing concerns
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  Speaker 1: over a pattern that some officials have described as eyebrow raising.
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  Speaker 1: President Donald Trump has also weighed in on this, calling
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  Speaker 1: the situation pretty serious stuff and indicating the administration as
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  Speaker 1: monitoring developments. Trump also expressed hope that the cases are coincidental,
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  Speaker 1: but emphasized the need for answers, noting that some of
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  Speaker 1: them were very important people, referring to the scientists. The incident,
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  Speaker 1: which spans now several years, includes a mix of disappearances, homicides,
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  Speaker 1: and then unex explained deaths.
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  Speaker 2: Among the most high profile.
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  Speaker 1: Cases is the disappearance of a retired Air Force Major
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  Speaker 1: General William Neil McCaslin in New Mexico earlier this year. Mcastlin,
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  Speaker 1: who previously led the airport's research laboratory, vanished after leaving
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  Speaker 1: his home without his phone or personal devices, sparking major
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  Speaker 1: speculation online. Other cases also include a NASA affiliated aerospace
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  Speaker 1: engineer who disappeared while hiking in California, and multiple deaths
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  Speaker 1: involving scientists in Massachusetts in California to add on to
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  Speaker 1: the list. Now, look some of these cases of clear explanation,
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  Speaker 1: such as criminal acts and personal circumstances, and that's where
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  Speaker 1: the Internet doesn't want to look at those actual facts.
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  Speaker 1: Now there is truth that some of these are unresolved.
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  Speaker 1: Despite all the online speculation, experts now and investment stigators
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  Speaker 1: have cautioned against jumping to any conclusions. Officials familiar with
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  Speaker 1: the cases say there is currently no confirmly connecting any
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  Speaker 1: of these incidences, and some point to the large workforce
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  Speaker 1: across these facilities as a factor, saying, quote, people do
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  Speaker 1: just die is what one former Energy Department official noted,
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  Speaker 1: citing health issues, accidents, and other causes. Still, there is
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  Speaker 1: enough concern about potential foreign involvement that now some Republican
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  Speaker 1: lawmakers have even suggested adversaries such as China, Russia, or
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  Speaker 1: Iran could see value in targeting US scientific expertise, particularly
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  Speaker 1: amid heightened global tensions and the ongoing conflict in Iran.
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  Speaker 1: Representative Eric Burlason, a Republican, said he would not be
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  Speaker 1: surprised if foreign actors were involved, noting that several of
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  Speaker 1: the individuals worked on sense of national security projects. The
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  Speaker 1: FBI expanded role follows increased public attention fueled in part
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  Speaker 1: by the social media speculation, and then demands for transparency.
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  Speaker 1: So where are we now, well, the House Oversight Committee
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  Speaker 1: has now launched its own probe, seeking briefings from multiple
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  Speaker 1: federal agencies. At the same time, agencies such as NASA
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  Speaker 1: have also said that there is no evidence in their
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  Speaker 1: mind of national security threat tied to the cases. Underscoring
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  Speaker 1: the uncertainties surrounding all of this, and as investigators continue
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  Speaker 1: their work, one thing is clear. The Trump administration is
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  Speaker 1: pledging what they described as a thorough review, and officials
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  Speaker 1: are promising that no stone quote unquote will be unturned.
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  Speaker 1: The FBI says they are determined to check and see
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  Speaker 1: if the incidents are isolated tragedies are part of a
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  Speaker 1: bigger and brought her concern from foreign countries that may
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  Speaker 1: be trying to take out our scientists or our leaders
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  Speaker 1: in multiple different sectors. That's the reason why the President
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  Speaker 1: said this is worth looking at. I want you to
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  Speaker 1: pause what you're doing for just one minute, and I
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  Speaker 1: want you to hear about Alejandra. She lives in a
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  Speaker 1: no doctors in their community, and no money for real
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  Speaker 1: medical care. By the third day, her body was shutting down.
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  Speaker 1: She woke up and just long enough to tell her mom,
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  Speaker 1: I can't take the pain anymore. I can't keep going.
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  Speaker 1: Her parents drove hours to find a doctor who tried everything,
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  Speaker 1: but she needed a private hospital and that was impossible
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  Speaker 1: for her family to afford. And that is when Compassion
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  Speaker 1: International stepped in. Now, through Compassion, Alejandra was treated and
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  Speaker 1: against all odds, she survived. She lived because someone just
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  Speaker 1: like you took action. Right now, Unfortunately, there are children
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  Speaker 1: a very interesting new poll that has just come out
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  Speaker 1: and it says something that well, I want your take on.
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  Speaker 1: Nearly one third of registered voters now say all illegal
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  Speaker 1: immigrants should be deported.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, nearly one third of.
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  Speaker 1: Registered voters say that every very single illegal immigrant in
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  Speaker 1: the United States America should be deported. This is a
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  Speaker 1: new survey from the economists and Yugov found. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: survey first asked respondents this which comes closest to your
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  Speaker 1: view about illegal immigrants who are living in the US. Overall,
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  Speaker 1: forty three percent of registered voters expressed the belief that
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  Speaker 1: they should be allowed to stay in the US and
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  Speaker 1: eventually apply for citizenship. That numbers followed by about forty
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  Speaker 1: percent who say they should be deported. Only seven percent
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  Speaker 1: said they should be allowed to stay in the US
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  Speaker 1: but not become citizens.
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  Speaker 2: Now here's the interesting part.
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  Speaker 1: Survey then asked respondents to identify which illegal immigrants they
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  Speaker 1: believe should be deported, and nearly one third of registered
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  Speaker 1: voters thirty one percent said all illegal immigrants should be deported.
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  Speaker 1: A majority of registered voters sixty percent, agreed that elle
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  Speaker 1: aliens convicted of serious crimes should be removed from the country,
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  Speaker 1: followed by nineteen percent who believe illegal immigrants convicted of
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  Speaker 1: minor crimes should be deported as well. Only three percent
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  Speaker 1: believe that illegal aliens who have lived in the US
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  Speaker 1: for many years without committing any crime should be deported. Now,
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  Speaker 1: also something else, just three percent believe illegal immigrants who
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  Speaker 1: came to the US as children should be deported. Now,
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  Speaker 1: there's a sharp difference in opinion on party lines. That's
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  Speaker 1: not surprising at all. Most Republicans fifty seven percent believe
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  Speaker 1: all legal immigrants should be deported. Twenty four percent of
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  Speaker 1: Independence and seven percent of Democrats agree. Now, most Democrats
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  Speaker 1: and Independence eighty one percent and sixty three percent, respectively
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  Speaker 1: believe illegal immigrants convicted of serious crimes should be deported.
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  Speaker 1: Survey was taken and it was a very good sample.
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  Speaker 1: This survey comes as the Department of Homeland Security continues
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  Speaker 1: to highlight arrests of dangerous criminal legal aliens across the country.
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  Speaker 1: Their crimes include crimes against children. Jose rivera Orta, a
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  Speaker 1: criminal legal alien from Cuba, for example, was arrested by
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  Speaker 1: ICE and was convicted for lewd battery on a child
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  Speaker 1: in Miami Dade County, Florida. Another arrests, Jacob Pablo Ramirez,
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  Speaker 1: hailing from Guatemala, was convicted for attempted statutory rape of
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  Speaker 1: a child in Dublin County, North Carolina. Other crimes include
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  Speaker 1: voluntary manslaughter, robbery, an aggravate assault with a deadly weapon.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, just yesterday, ICE arrested some truly sick individuals,
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  Speaker 1: including murderers, pedophiles, sexual predators, and violent thugs. That coming
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  Speaker 1: from the DHS Secretary Mark Wayne mwen He said in
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  Speaker 1: a statement a coming the April fourteenth press release highlighting
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  Speaker 1: the fact that nearly seventy percent of all ICE arrests
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  Speaker 1: are of illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime
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  Speaker 1: in the United States of America. Now, this poll number
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  Speaker 1: is interesting because if you listen to the left, you
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  Speaker 1: listen to the media, they make you think that the
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  Speaker 1: president is completely out to lunch and that he's crazy
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  Speaker 1: to think that Americans want illegal immigrants to be deported. Well,
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  Speaker 1: guess what, they're wrong, And yeah, they put out a
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  Speaker 1: ton of propaganda on this exact issue. But that also
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  Speaker 1: is interesting from another perspective, is that propaganda working as
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  Speaker 1: well as they thought it was going to. The reality
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  Speaker 1: is probably not. Americans understand the crimes are being committed
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  Speaker 1: again them. They understand what it's doing to their communities,
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  Speaker 1: and that is exactly why the President of the United
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  Speaker 1: States of America continues to stay steadfast on this issue.
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  Speaker 1: It's also a reason why Republicans should listen up and
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  Speaker 1: watch closely to this data, especially going into the midterm elections.
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  Speaker 1: So here we are another moment where the media lied
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  Speaker 1: about what the American people want. The media lied about
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  Speaker 1: where the president was with the American people. And yes,
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  Speaker 1: many of them are still supporting the president, and they
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  Speaker 1: believe that immigration, specifically illegal immigrants should not get to stay. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: they should be deported. The voting measure did not comply
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  Speaker 1: with the Virginia Constitution, so therefore it cannot be enforced
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  Speaker 1: or certified by the Board of Elections. This coming less
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  Speaker 1: than twenty four hours after voters thought in Virginia they
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  Speaker 1: settled one of the biggest policy fights in America, redistricting
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  Speaker 1: by a razor thin margin. This happened, and the Virginia
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  Speaker 1: Court has voided last night's constitutional amendment referendum on redistricting,
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  Speaker 1: ruling the amendment process was not only unlawful, but they're
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  Speaker 1: now blocking the certification of the election results. Now, let's
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  Speaker 1: go back to the vote itself, all right, So you
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  Speaker 1: understand how we got to this point, how quickly the
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  Speaker 1: Virginia courts got involved. Virginia voters approved a measure that
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  Speaker 1: would temporarily hand power over congressional map drawing back to
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  Speaker 1: the state legislature instead of the bipartisan redistricting Commission that
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  Speaker 1: voters approved not long ago in twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 2: Now you may ask yourself the question why does this matter?
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  Speaker 1: Well, because the legislature is controlled by the Democrats and
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  Speaker 1: the new maps that they already drafted would shift Virginia
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  Speaker 1: from a closely divided delegation in Congress to something that
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  Speaker 1: looks like more of a ten to one advantage for Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: It's literally the definition of jerry mandering. So this wasn't
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  Speaker 1: just procedural. This could impact the control of the US
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  Speaker 1: House representatives and again who would be the speaker? Would
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  Speaker 1: Republicans be in charge or would Democrats be in charge.
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  Speaker 1: That's why this had national implications nationwide because other states,
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  Speaker 1: the question was would they respond to what Virginia did
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  Speaker 1: to go back and try to counter their egregious redrawing
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  Speaker 1: of the maps to put ten Democrats only one Republican
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  Speaker 1: in Congress from the state of Virginia. Now, all of
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  Speaker 1: this was going on, and then came the court ruling.
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  Speaker 1: A Circuit court judge in Virginia ruled the entire referendum
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  Speaker 1: was not only invalid but also unconstitutional, effectively freezing the
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  Speaker 1: results and blocking the new maps from taking effect. Why well,
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  Speaker 1: The judge cited big reasons three key ones. Number one,
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  Speaker 1: they said it was a procedural violation. The lawsuit brought
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  Speaker 1: by the Republican National Committee argued that lawmakers didn't follow
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  Speaker 1: proper constitutional rule when putting this amendment on the ballot.
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  Speaker 1: That includes issues like timing, legislative process, and how the
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  Speaker 1: amendment was authorized. Then number two, the misleading ballot language
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  Speaker 1: was another problem. The judge took issue with how the
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  Speaker 1: question was presented to voters, and clearly it was presented
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  Speaker 1: to confuse voters. In fact, the judge said in writing
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  Speaker 1: that not only was the question well a problem, but
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  Speaker 1: it may have been deliberately used the wording for confusing
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  Speaker 1: or misleading the voters, which can invalidate a referendum legally.
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  Speaker 2: And then the third thing.
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  Speaker 1: That was by the judge the argument was the amendment
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  Speaker 1: effectively overroaded Virginia's existing constitutional system for redistricting the bipartisan
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  Speaker 1: commission voters had already approved. That raised serious legal concerns
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  Speaker 1: about whether the lawmakers can do what they did bypass
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  Speaker 1: the structure in mid decade. And that's not how it's
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be done. So, simply put, not only the
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  Speaker 1: court get involved. But the court didn't just disagree with
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  Speaker 1: the outcome. They said the process itself was flawed. So
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  Speaker 1: there were multiple reasons for the Virginia Court to get involved.
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  Speaker 1: So what does this mean right now? Number one, the
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  Speaker 1: vote is essentially on hold. Even though people voted all right,
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  Speaker 1: the results cannot be implemented until higher courts get involved
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  Speaker 1: or would overturn this ruling. The second point here is this,
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  Speaker 1: This is clearly I think, headed straight to the Virginia
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  Speaker 1: Supreme Court. The state's attorney general has already said they'll appeal,
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  Speaker 1: and the Supreme Court had already signaled and expected to
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  Speaker 1: weigh in on the voting matter as well. So this
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  Speaker 1: fight is, by the way, far from over. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: it's actually now just the beginning. Now, the current maps
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  Speaker 1: stay in place for now. That is good news if
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  Speaker 1: you don't want jerry mandering. Until the legal battle has resolved,
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  Speaker 1: Virginia will likely continue using its existing congressional districts, meaning
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  Speaker 1: that it is much more fair based on how the
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  Speaker 1: people vote in Virginia. Now, the bigger question is is
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  Speaker 1: this a victory against jerry mannering?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it depends entirely on your perspective, and this is
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  Speaker 1: where the politics of this really does get real nationwide.
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  Speaker 1: What Republicans did is they're calling this a huge win
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  Speaker 1: in DC. I understand why. They argue the amendment was
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  Speaker 1: a partisan power grab solely designed to redraw maps in
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  Speaker 1: a way that heavily favored Democrats. Now, in their view,
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  Speaker 1: the court just stopped an unconstitutional jerry mandering situation.
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  Speaker 2: We should celebrate that.
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  Speaker 1: Democrats, of course, are going to spend this and say
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  Speaker 1: the complete opposite what they argued, not only in court,
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  Speaker 1: but also they're going to argue at this Virginia Supreme
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  Speaker 1: Court when this case is heard, is that the voters
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  Speaker 1: made their voices heard and that the courts are now
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  Speaker 1: overriding democracy itself. Democrats are also out there online already
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  Speaker 1: saying that this was a move to counter aggressive redistricting
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  Speaker 1: in other states. So they're just doing what other people
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  Speaker 1: have already done. They're actually arguing this is somehow antijerrymandering,
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  Speaker 1: and that's absurd. So what do we have moving away
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  Speaker 1: from this. We've got a clean victory for fair maps.
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  Speaker 1: I think that states should be fair, they should represent
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  Speaker 1: the people. I don't like gerrymandering like this. It's also
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  Speaker 1: a ruling about the process, all right, So not a
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  Speaker 1: final decision is going to happen here, and it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a part of the much bigger national fight
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  Speaker 1: where both parties are trying to gain an edge before
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  Speaker 1: the mid terms. Now Virginia is at this moment ground
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  Speaker 1: zero and the battleover who controls congressional maps. Is it
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  Speaker 1: the voters, is it the courts? Is the combination of both?
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  Speaker 1: And if you're gerrymandering, does a court have a right
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  Speaker 1: to step in and stop it? Yes, the referendum pass barely.
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  Speaker 1: It was fifty one forty nine. Then immediately the judge
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  Speaker 1: voided it, and now the entire issue is headed to
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  Speaker 1: the state's highest court. And what is even more scary
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  Speaker 1: about this moment is if Democrats win this, they will
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  Speaker 1: change the total control of power in Congress, literally changing
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  Speaker 1: the balance of power. That is not, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: how redistricting is supposed to work. It is happening, but
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  Speaker 1: is not how it's supposed to work. I want you
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  Speaker 1: to take a listen to this. As it was reported
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  Speaker 1: from Fox News Channel earlier.
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  Speaker 3: Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger celebrating the win in yesterday's redistricting vote,
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  Speaker 3: voters narrowly approving a new pro Democrat congressional map and
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  Speaker 3: a controversial referendum that critics have slammed as a quote
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  Speaker 3: power grab. The outcome threatens the already very tight Republican
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  Speaker 3: House majority. Mark Meredith is livey in Alexandria, Virginia. With
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  Speaker 3: more on this and Mark, that vote ended up pretty narrow.
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  Speaker 4: Bill.
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  Speaker 5: It sure did a lot narrower than some people were expecting,
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  Speaker 5: and Virginia voters showed up in huge numbers to determine
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  Speaker 5: Tuesday's redistricting referendum. This morning, Democrats are celebrating the outcome,
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  Speaker 5: saying it's they're putting a check on President Trump's power,
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  Speaker 5: but Republicans say this is simply proof that Virginia has
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  Speaker 5: lost its way. More than three million people cast their ballot,
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  Speaker 5: and what you said was a narrowly defined race. However,
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  Speaker 5: voters chose to give the legislature power to redraw congressional
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  Speaker 5: maps before November's midterms.
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  Speaker 6: The new map is.
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  Speaker 5: Expected to take Republicans down from five congressional districts to one.
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  Speaker 5: We heard from the chair the National Republican Congressional Committee,
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  Speaker 5: who wrote, Democrats can't redraw reality.
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  Speaker 6: This close margin reinforces that Virginia is a purple state that.
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  Speaker 5: Shouldn't be represented by a severe partisan jerrymander. Democrats say
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  Speaker 5: they felt emboldened to act after Republicans.
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  Speaker 6: In Texas redistricted too.
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  Speaker 5: Governor Abigail Spamberger and former President Obama they were the
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  Speaker 5: ones leading the effort in the Commonwealth. Reheard from the
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  Speaker 5: former President Obama saying Republicans are trying to tilt the
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  Speaker 5: midterm elections in their favor, but they haven't done it yet.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand
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  Speaker 5: up for our democracy and fight back.
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  Speaker 6: So Tuesday's outcome means, yes.
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  Speaker 5: That Democrats have a better shot now at taking the
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  Speaker 5: House come November, but other states are still weighing whether
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  Speaker 5: to redraw their maps. As Politico points out, pressure is
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  Speaker 5: now growing on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to make up
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  Speaker 5: for Democrats gains with a gop led redistricting effort in
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  Speaker 5: his state as soon as next week.
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  Speaker 6: And while voters decided here.
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  Speaker 5: In Virginia, there is another X factor in all this bill.
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  Speaker 5: The Virginia State Supreme Court is still deciding whether or
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  Speaker 5: not this will all be able to stand. There were
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  Speaker 5: multiple challenges to this redistricting referendum, including how the language
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  Speaker 5: on the ballot was written, and we were waiting to see.
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  Speaker 6: What the court may decide next.
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  Speaker 1: Now, obviously we know what happened next. The Virginia's Circuit
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  Speaker 1: Court ruled that the redistricting vote is unconstitutional. So now
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  Speaker 1: we wait for it to go to the Supreme Court
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  Speaker 1: a Virginia, and then we wait to see what happens
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  Speaker 1: around the country. But certainly it's going to be very
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  Speaker 1: interesting to see what happens moving forward. All right, I
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  Speaker 1: want to just ask you a question real quick. How
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  Speaker 1: mad would you be if you knew that your tax
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  Speaker 1: dollars were being spent to import illegal immigrants. I'm asking
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  Speaker 1: that question because we're now finding out that that is
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  Speaker 1: exactly what happened in California. California Governor Gavin Newsom, we're
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  Speaker 1: now being told covertly spent not one million, not ten million,
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  Speaker 1: not even fifty million, not even one hundred million, not
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  Speaker 1: even five hundred million. He spent one billion dollars importing
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  Speaker 1: four hundred thousand migrants from poor countries to serve the
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  Speaker 1: state's democratic political machine. This according to data provided by
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  Speaker 1: the Manhattan Institute in New York.
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  Speaker 2: Let me just read for you from what we've learned. Quote.
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  Speaker 1: Since Newsom took office, California has granted massive contracts to
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  Speaker 1: migrant related services. This is also what you could describe
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  Speaker 1: as a kickback to his donors and supporters.
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  Speaker 2: More than two hundred and.
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  Speaker 1: Fifty million dollars alone went to the Catholic Charities, eighty
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  Speaker 1: five million to Jewish Family Services, twelve million to the
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  Speaker 1: Centro Legal de la Raza whatever that is, twenty three
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  Speaker 1: million to the Immigration Institute of the Bay Area. That's
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  Speaker 1: just some of the biggest people that got checks.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: The funding is also in addition to California's share of
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  Speaker 1: massive and this is where your tax dollurs, no matter
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  Speaker 1: where you're listening right now, matter the most. They have
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  Speaker 1: a massive federal funding that's been directed that's your tax
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  Speaker 1: dollurs by then President Joe Biden's pro immigration border chief
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  Speaker 1: Alejandro Maiorchis. The state's democratic government also steered one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and ten million to the major Latino political machine known
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  Speaker 1: as the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights Los Angeles. That
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  Speaker 1: organization can be described as a one stop activist machine
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  Speaker 1: with the ability to not only produce and I'm not joking,
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  Speaker 1: political propaganda, then engage in legal action and most importantly,
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  Speaker 1: get people into the streets. The group coordinates the LA
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  Speaker 1: Rapid Response Network, which also tracks ICE raids and where
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  Speaker 1: ICE agents are, and then takes direct action they say,
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  Speaker 1: to shut down detention centers.
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  Speaker 2: That's their own words.
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  Speaker 1: Now, during the wave of fake protests in LA, this
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  Speaker 1: organization and their activists agitated on social media, led us
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  Speaker 1: treat protests, and then they were the ones that called
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  Speaker 1: for what spread as the quote Summer of resistance. All
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  Speaker 1: of this was not organic. All of this was paid for,
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  Speaker 1: and much of it with your tax dollars. Now, at
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  Speaker 1: the height of the unrest, we're also learning this. The
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  Speaker 1: executive director of this Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 1: Angelica Salis, spoken a street protest, telling crowds that ICE
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  Speaker 1: agents were conducting a militarized siege against illegal migrants, saying, quote,
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  Speaker 1: are they're going to stop Trump's terror campaign against our community?
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  Speaker 1: We will not stop marching, we will not stop fighting.
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  Speaker 1: The article is titled quote how Gavin Newsom subsidized the
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  Speaker 1: migrant invasion? Where all of this is being exposed, I
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  Speaker 1: hope you'll download it and read it again, put it
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  Speaker 1: into Google. How Gavin Newsom subsidize the migrant invasion. It
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  Speaker 1: also concluded in the report that the quote two million
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  Speaker 1: illegal migrants in California are ponds merely instruments of activist
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  Speaker 1: class that would like to see America burn quote unquote.
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  Speaker 1: Now newsome support for the migration is better understood of
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  Speaker 1: the self serving operation of California's Democratic political machine, and
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  Speaker 1: this is why the money was being spent the way
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  Speaker 1: that it was. They're using the plans that have been
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  Speaker 1: used in New York, New York City, in Boston, in Denver,
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  Speaker 1: in Minneapolis. California's Democratic machine once more low wage migrants,
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  Speaker 1: because the migrants serve as customers for the state's education
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  Speaker 1: and welfare agencies. In time, the multi ethnic migrant customers
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  Speaker 1: become clients and beneficiaries and then, most importantly to them,
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  Speaker 1: modern day slaves, dependents of the multi ethnic machine that
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  Speaker 1: the Democratic Party has set up. And then they eventually
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  Speaker 1: will repay that machine, the Democrats with their votes, and
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  Speaker 1: gradually they are expected to then get citizenship, right to
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  Speaker 1: be naturalized. It's all a part of the overall plan.
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  Speaker 1: But now we're witnessing just how much money it's costing you. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the process in California is not any different from what
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  Speaker 1: the Irish political machine that emerged in Chicago and Boston
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  Speaker 1: and New York during the late eighteen hundreds. Did you
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  Speaker 1: remember these saying history repeats itself. Well, it literally is
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  Speaker 1: right now in in front of us in real time.
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  Speaker 1: You go back then and you study that story. New
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  Speaker 1: York's Timmani Hall, for example, gain power as many Irish
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  Speaker 1: migrants fled the famine, and then lost power when the
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  Speaker 1: Americans elected to Congress to block migration in the nineteen twenties. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Newsom's migrant clients also serve as business allies as well,
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  Speaker 1: because Democrats claim they want to quote living wage, but
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  Speaker 1: they want to pay a low wage worker instead of
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  Speaker 1: an American worker welfare aided customers. They're fine with that
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  Speaker 1: because also brings them new consumers. And these are also
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  Speaker 1: individuals that will rent their slums, you know, their apartments,
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  Speaker 1: because many of them are apartment sharing renters.
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  Speaker 2: Let me just give you one example.
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  Speaker 1: In March, missionlocal dot org reported that San Francisco had
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  Speaker 1: to inflate real estate values in the state. Why did
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  Speaker 1: this happen. Well, I'll give you another example of that. Camello,
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  Speaker 1: forty three, was looking for a place to live for
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  Speaker 1: almost six months after arriving in the United States of
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  Speaker 1: America three years ago. And more in the article, it
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  Speaker 1: says they finally found his current room through a friend
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  Speaker 1: of friends of his nephew. Carmelo works at a neighborhood
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  Speaker 1: grocery store on Sixteenth Street. He was stacking cabbages on
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  Speaker 1: the shelf and pulling bad looking mushrooms out of the
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  Speaker 1: ben as he spoke to the mission local about finding
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  Speaker 1: housing and paying rent in San Francisco. The undocumented immigrant,
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  Speaker 1: we called him an illegal immigrant, arrived three years ago
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  Speaker 1: from the Yucatan. He lives in an apartment with three others,
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  Speaker 1: his twenty five year old son and two of his nephews.
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  Speaker 1: They pay two nine hundred and fifty dollars total.
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  Speaker 2: Here we are.
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  Speaker 1: There isn't another option, Camellos said in Spanish. One immigrant
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  Speaker 1: family from El Salvador cran not one, not two, not five,
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  Speaker 1: but fifteen people into a two bedroom unit in the
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  Speaker 1: Excelsior neighborhood during the pandemic. The migrants also serve the
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  Speaker 1: state's democratic leading prosperous class with low cost services such
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  Speaker 1: as manicures, gardening, and cheap car washes. I wish I
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  Speaker 1: was joking, but this is actually why the Democrats are
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  Speaker 1: taking advantage of them. Of course, the mass inflow of
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  Speaker 1: wage cutting, rent spiking, Democrat voting illegal immigrants also pushes
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  Speaker 1: ordinary hardworking Americans out of the Democrats' amnesty zones and
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  Speaker 1: towards southern and Midwestern cities and states with lower taxes
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  Speaker 1: and family friendly laws. The elite's widespread use of illegal
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  Speaker 1: migration against ordinary Americans is often protected by the Democrats,
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  Speaker 1: and they're dubbed you guessed it, sanctuary cities. Now in
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: these cities, in these zones, Democrats and even some GOP
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  Speaker 1: politicians are barring police enforcement of popular migration related labor
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  Speaker 1: laws and also try to block the Democratic implementation a
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  Speaker 1: President Donald Trump's twenty twenty four popular mandate. This is
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  Speaker 1: how the Democrats are going to move forward. Take your money,
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  Speaker 1: as much of it as they can, and give it
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  Speaker 1: to illegal immigrants.
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  Speaker 2: Communists.
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  Speaker 1: Zohai Mundani doubling down on sanctuary policies protecting criminal illegals.
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  Speaker 2: Just last week, he had this to say.
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  Speaker 4: First and foremost I'm going to follow up with my
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  Speaker 4: team around what cuney policies are and what they need
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  Speaker 4: to be. I think we've seen a number of times
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  Speaker 4: where we are proud of the sanctuary city policies we
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  Speaker 4: have in New York City, and we also want to
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: be clear that and I'll say this as the mayor,
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: I do not want a future of the city where
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: we learn how to deal with ice. I believe that
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: ice should be abolished, and I've said that both publicly
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  Speaker 4: and privately, and I've even told the President directly that
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  Speaker 4: I believe that ice ICE raids are cruel and inhumane,
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  Speaker 4: and I think that they don't do anything to serve
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  Speaker 4: in the stated public interests of public safety.
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  Speaker 1: So there you have it. Follow the money. Time after time,
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  Speaker 1: this is what we are seeing. Democratic policies not only
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  Speaker 1: don't work, but even nearly fifty four thousand, we're now
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: hearing Los Angeles County residents fled in a single year
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  Speaker 1: whine because they can't afford the rent, they can't afford
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: to deal with a crime, and they can't afford to
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  Speaker 1: work for next to nothing competing with illegal aliens, and
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: what they're willing to make and live on top of
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  Speaker 1: each other in the housing Here's just one example of
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: how Fox Business described the massive excess not from California,
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  Speaker 1: but fifty four thousand a year from Los Angeles County alone.
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  Speaker 7: The exodus continues. We've got shocking new figures showing Los
• 31:59
  Speaker 7: Angeles losing tens of thousands of residents, one of the
• 32:02
  Speaker 7: biggest population drops in the nation. Experts pointing to soaring costs,
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: shrinking opportunity, and policy failures driving people out.
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  Speaker 8: Eventually that system collapses because the problem with socialism is
• 32:14
  Speaker 8: you run out of other people's money. So that system
• 32:18
  Speaker 8: collapses if enough people leave. And I know we're just
• 32:20
  Speaker 8: talking about la but then eventually these states, that system
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  Speaker 8: can't support itself because there isn't the tax space to
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  Speaker 8: support all of the public funds that you want.
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  Speaker 9: I hate to say it, but to your point, they
• 32:33
  Speaker 9: make all these promises. If you heard what Zora Madamie said,
• 32:36
  Speaker 9: it's going to be free this, free that, free this.
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  Speaker 9: I got to take care of everyone. I'm going to
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  Speaker 9: tax the rich. Don't you worry about it. You stay
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  Speaker 9: right where you are. Well, guess what, how's that working out.
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  Speaker 9: The state's not going to the state's not going to
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  Speaker 9: raise income taxes on the wealthy. It's an election here,
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  Speaker 9: Kathy Ogle, She'll do it in January if she gets
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  Speaker 9: re elected, but she's not going to do it now.
• 32:52
  Speaker 9: And so Mondamie's been forced to out raid the Reserve Fund.
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  Speaker 9: How do people feel about that?
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  Speaker 3: So?
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  Speaker 9: I hate to say it, but you're really have actions matter,
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  Speaker 9: and you have to pay attention whether or not you
• 33:02
  Speaker 9: get involved in politics. You have to understand what's going
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  Speaker 9: on in politics. You recognize the decision you make as consequences.
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  Speaker 1: And that decision is costing you literally more than one
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  Speaker 1: billion dollars to import four hundred thousand extra illegal immigrants
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  Speaker 1: into California alone. This is how you destroy a country
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: from within, and Gavin Newsom is clearly going full speed
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  Speaker 1: ahead to replace you with an illegal immigrant.
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  Speaker 2: Well, keep following this story.
• 33:33
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