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Partial Shutdown in Effect "Not a Penny for ICE" plus Kash Patel Targets MN · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Senate. Democrats are now threatening to vote down key funding bills,
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  Speaker 1: particularly homeland security funding unless changes are made. What does
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  Speaker 1: this mean another government shut down? The White House and
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  Speaker 1: Republicans are rejecting the Democrats' demands for what they say
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  Speaker 1: is decoupling homeland security funding, which increases the chances of
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  Speaker 1: a partial government shut down. Now, the Democrats opposition comes
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  Speaker 1: amid fallout from controversial actions, they say by federal immigration agents.
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  Speaker 1: But critics argue this decision is creating political chaos and
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  Speaker 1: uncertainty now in the budget process, and the standoff over
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  Speaker 1: the DHS funding means essential agencies like the Pentagon and
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  Speaker 1: education programs could face lapses in funding if the Democrats
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  Speaker 1: choose to shut down the government yet again. Now, opponents
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  Speaker 1: argue Democrats are playing hardball politics rather than negotiating, which
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  Speaker 1: could also hurt their standing with the public, and we
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  Speaker 1: can trust in the government operations in general under their leadership.
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  Speaker 1: There's also a bigger part of this Democrats going all
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  Speaker 1: in to attack law and order, to attack law enforcement,
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  Speaker 1: and now wanting to deliberately defund law enforcement. Is this
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  Speaker 1: really the message they want to be sending to voters
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  Speaker 1: ahead of the midterms? Apparently they say yes, Now, how
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  Speaker 1: likely is it that we will have a government shutdown?
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  Speaker 1: Senator Ted Cruz and I sat down and talked about
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  Speaker 1: exactly that, and here's what he said about his prediction
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  Speaker 1: of will we actually have another partial government shutdowns? And
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  Speaker 1: what we're now witnessing is democrats, I think feel like
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  Speaker 1: this issue plays to their base, it engages their base,
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  Speaker 1: and they're now going to use it to justify another
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  Speaker 1: government shut down. This is my opinion. I want to
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  Speaker 1: get your thoughts on it because I think that we're
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  Speaker 1: headed there for this reason where they're like, hey, we
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  Speaker 1: have a justification now for what we want to get
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  Speaker 1: rid of ice. When we get rid of ice, funding
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  Speaker 1: funding for them? Is that wor' showing the government down over?
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  Speaker 1: Are you seeing the way I'm seeing it now that
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  Speaker 1: this is where we're headed.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, But before we get to shut down, I want
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  Speaker 2: to point out because politically, it's more than just their base. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: it is true that these violent protests energize their base, drives,
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  Speaker 2: turn out, drives, fundraising, The crazies get all the more
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  Speaker 2: excited the more violence the left foments, But it's about
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  Speaker 2: more than that. It's also about totally capturing the news cycle,
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  Speaker 2: taking the fraud and corruption out of the news cycle.
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  Speaker 2: That's a totally separate objective that is critically important to them.
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  Speaker 2: But there is a third one ben which is not
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  Speaker 2: the base of the Democrat Party, but rather moderate women,
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  Speaker 2: soccer moms who may not be deeply politically engaged, and
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  Speaker 2: historically moderate suburban women have been a swing vote. If
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  Speaker 2: you look in the last decade, the two most predominant
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  Speaker 2: political movements we've seen is that we've seen number one,
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  Speaker 2: blue collar voters moving right. That's moved Midwestern states, states
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  Speaker 2: like Ohio have gotten a lot red. They used to
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  Speaker 2: be purple. Ohio's now read. But we've also seen suburban voters,
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  Speaker 2: particularly suburban women, moving left, and that's moved what used
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  Speaker 2: to be red states to purple states like Georgia and Arizona,
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  Speaker 2: both of them. Just a few years ago they had
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  Speaker 2: four Republican senators from Georgia and Arizona. We now have
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  Speaker 2: four Democrat senators from Georgia and Arizona. The reason is
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  Speaker 2: suburban women in Atlanta and Phoenix move left. The Democrats
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  Speaker 2: of the media are seizing on this to tell stories
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  Speaker 2: and understand they're looking for not the person that is
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  Speaker 2: following every development, but just the person who's living their
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  Speaker 2: life and taking in what's happening and seeing a headline.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Ice shoots mother of three, Ice shoots ICU nurse,
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  Speaker 2: Ice apprehends five year old child. That story was everywhere,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, it's a total lie. It's absolutely false.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, what happened is Ice came to apprehend the father.
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  Speaker 2: The father ran off and abandoned the five year old child.
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  Speaker 2: And and understandably, Ice was not going to leave a
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  Speaker 2: five year old child alone on the.
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  Speaker 1: Street in the death outside. Yeah, I mean they would
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  Speaker 1: leave alone, period. But the but the argument that the
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  Speaker 1: left has made, I'm like, let me get this straight.
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  Speaker 1: You guys want the kid to be left alone just
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  Speaker 1: to wander the streets of a city and be alone.
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  Speaker 1: That's insane. And then in the winter when they could
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  Speaker 1: freeze death, that's also insane.
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  Speaker 3: They, by the way, found the woman, the mother of
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  Speaker 3: the child.
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  Speaker 2: It is reported they found the mother of the child.
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  Speaker 2: They knocked on the door, tried to give the child
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  Speaker 2: back to her. She wouldn't take him. She closed the
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  Speaker 2: door and said no, I won't take him. And so look,
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  Speaker 2: the purpose of that story is not actually factual journalism.
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  Speaker 2: It is entirely about telling a story to pull on
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  Speaker 2: people's heartstrings and to cause suburban voters who are not
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  Speaker 2: paying close attention to say, oh, this has gone too far.
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  Speaker 2: If they're shooting moms and nurses and arresting little kids,
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  Speaker 2: clearly it's gone too far. This is a political campaign,
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  Speaker 2: and tragically it's a political campaign that is costing people's lives.
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  Speaker 2: But because look, the political campaign is having some real effect,
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  Speaker 2: it is, it is having a fact We saw, you know,
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  Speaker 2: John Kasik speaking of suburban women. We saw John Kasik
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  Speaker 2: put out a whole video saying, you know, oh, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just I'm hurting so much. We must stop. We
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  Speaker 2: must stop arresting illegals. You know, Unfortunately that's the target audience.
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  Speaker 2: And in the world of politics, we've got to realize
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  Speaker 2: that we've got to confront the bad stories with stories
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  Speaker 2: that are compelling, and it's where tone matters, and I
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  Speaker 2: would encourage Look, the administration is doing a fantastic job
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  Speaker 2: securing the border. Illegal crossings have dropped ninety nine percent.
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  Speaker 3: It's phenomenal.
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  Speaker 2: They're doing a terrific job going and arresting violent criminals
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  Speaker 2: murderers and rapists and gang bangers, which is why we've
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  Speaker 2: seen the murder rate drop twenty percent. We covered that
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  Speaker 2: in the last podcast, that the murder rate has dropped
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  Speaker 2: twenty percent across the country.
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  Speaker 3: That's a massive success.
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  Speaker 2: What I think the administration could do better is the
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  Speaker 2: tone with which they're describing this. That immediately when an
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  Speaker 2: incident like this happens, they come out guns blazing that
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  Speaker 2: we took out a violent terrorist, hooray. And the problem is,
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  Speaker 2: particularly for someone not paying attention, if you're being told
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  Speaker 2: this is a mom of three and there's no indication
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  Speaker 2: you know, she's not waving an ISIS flag or doesn't
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  Speaker 2: have a suicide vest around her. Yeah, escalating the rhetoric
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  Speaker 2: doesn't help, and it actually loses credibility. And so I
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  Speaker 2: would encourage the administration to be more measured, to recognize
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  Speaker 2: the tragedy and to say.
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  Speaker 3: We don't want anyone anyone's lives to be lost.
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  Speaker 2: And the politicians who are pouring gasoline onto this fire,
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  Speaker 2: they need to stop.
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  Speaker 1: looking for an opportunity, so is the media. And they
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  Speaker 1: now believe that like this civil war and hold this
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  Speaker 1: flag up is you know and planet is we as Democrats,
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  Speaker 1: we're willing to shut down the government to defund ice.
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  Speaker 1: That's gonna be the premise, is what I've been told
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  Speaker 1: from many of in the media that I've talked to
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  Speaker 1: and some of my friends on the left. They're like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna shut down. We're justified this time way more
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  Speaker 1: than we were last time. Last time we really weren't
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  Speaker 1: justified very much and shuting down the government, but we
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  Speaker 1: tried it anyway. Now they actually fill in bolden, do
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  Speaker 1: you think a government shutdown is going to come?
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  Speaker 3: Yes or no? Yes? One percent? Yes, okay, and it's going.
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  Speaker 1: To be tied to this issue, right, yes, yes, one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent.
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  Speaker 2: The last government shutdown, which was the longest government shutdown
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  Speaker 2: in US history, Chuck Schumer and the Democrats forced through
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  Speaker 2: really to show his radical base that he was fighting
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  Speaker 2: because he's scared of being primary by AOC. But they
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  Speaker 2: also did it to tee up the issue of healthcare
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  Speaker 2: and the cost of health insurance premiums. Mind you, the
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  Speaker 2: premiums have skyrocketed because of Obamacare, because of their policy.
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  Speaker 2: But they did the shutdown. It was entirely with an
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  Speaker 2: eye towards November that they say, look, we fought like
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  Speaker 2: crazy on health insurance, and the mean Republicans didn't give
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  Speaker 2: us what we wanted, which was fifty billion dollars in
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  Speaker 2: corporate welfare subsidies. To giant health insurance companies and that's
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  Speaker 2: why your health insurance has gone up. Now that's factually wrong,
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  Speaker 2: but it is a political narrative they're telling here. They
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  Speaker 2: are going to tell the narrative, we will not fund
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  Speaker 2: ICE under any circumstances, and we will shut the government down.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, the media covered for them so much.
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  Speaker 2: Their base was so happy with the shutdown. I think
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  Speaker 2: they perceive very few downsides to shutting the government down. Now,
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  Speaker 2: this shutdown that will happen on January thirtieth will likely
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  Speaker 2: be smaller than the previous one.
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  Speaker 3: And the reason is we've funded Still.
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  Speaker 1: Explain Explain why, because does that mean they're being more
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  Speaker 1: strategic in how they're doing it, or explain that.
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  Speaker 2: Now between the two we have passed some appropriations bills.
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  Speaker 2: So once appropriations bills are passed, those departments are funding,
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  Speaker 2: so AG that the Department of Agriculture is funded, and
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  Speaker 2: so everything that goes through AG is funded, CJS, Commerce,
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  Speaker 2: Justice and Science that is funded. Energy is funded, water
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  Speaker 2: is funded, Interior environment, ledge branch, military construction in the VA,
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  Speaker 2: all of those are funded. So the shutdown will not
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  Speaker 2: impact any of those. So what would a shut down impact.
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  Speaker 2: It would impact Defense, the Department of War, it would
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  Speaker 2: impact the Department of Labor, it would impact HHS, it
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  Speaker 2: would impact the Department of Education, It would impact the
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  Speaker 2: Department of Transportation.
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  Speaker 3: And Housing in urban Development.
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  Speaker 2: It would impact the SEC, the SCC, the independent agencies,
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  Speaker 2: And it would impact DHS, the Department of Homeland Security,
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  Speaker 2: and ICE directly under that. And I think you're going
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  Speaker 2: to see the Democrats force a shut down. And actually
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  Speaker 2: you don't have to take my words for it. Here,
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  Speaker 2: let me read for you what Schumer tweeted out to
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  Speaker 2: the world. He said, quote, what's happening in Minnesota is
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  Speaker 2: appalling and unacceptable in any American city. Democrats sought common
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  Speaker 2: sense reforms in the Department of Homeland Security spending bill,
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  Speaker 2: but because of Republican's refusal to stand up to President Trump,
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  Speaker 2: the DHS bill woefully inadequate to rein in the abuses
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  Speaker 2: of ICE.
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  Speaker 3: I will vote no.
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  Speaker 2: Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to
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  Speaker 2: the Appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included there.
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  Speaker 2: He is explicitly, unequivocally threatening a shutdown. I think that's
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  Speaker 2: what we're gonna see come Janus, and by.
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  Speaker 1: The way, He's not the only one. So Elizabeth Warren
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  Speaker 1: was responding to another tweet. I want to read it.
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  Speaker 1: It was just the tweet she was responding to to
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  Speaker 1: give it context. Says reminder, DHS legislation that funds ICE
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  Speaker 1: at current levels without policy restrictions is in the Senate
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  Speaker 1: and needs sixty votes to pass. Deadline is next Friday.
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth Warren puts that out there with this and she says, quote,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a hell no, not a penny more for ICE.
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  Speaker 1: We should not fund this terror. So she's also jumping
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  Speaker 1: on board with this as well. And then there's other
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  Speaker 1: centers have come out and so this is why I
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  Speaker 1: say this isn't a one off. This is clearly a
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  Speaker 1: coordinated attack, is the best way I can describe it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, here's Chris Murphy on CNN, give a listen.
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  Speaker 4: I want to ask about what you're leader. Chuck Schumber says,
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  Speaker 4: the Democrats are going to vote against a government funding
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  Speaker 4: package that is before the Senate soon and it includes
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  Speaker 4: money for the Department of Homeland Security. How is that
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  Speaker 4: going to play out?
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  Speaker 5: Well, we can't vote to fund this lawless Department of
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  Speaker 5: Homeland Security.
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  Speaker 1: We can't fund this lawless Department of Homeland Security center.
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  Speaker 1: That's pretty bold words if you ask me by a
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  Speaker 1: center that clearly is like, hey, we're all on the
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  Speaker 1: same page. This is what we're doing now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Look that's the position of every Democrat.
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  Speaker 2: And understand, this is the same position that is abolish
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  Speaker 2: ICE and abolish the police. They're saying they're going to
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  Speaker 2: refuse to fund the Department of Homeland Security, the department
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  Speaker 2: that is charged with keeping us safe, with securing our border,
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  Speaker 2: with protecting our families, and the Democrats are saying we
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  Speaker 2: won't fund it.
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  Speaker 3: So what will happen.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's a chance we see Congress put together
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  Speaker 2: an appropriations package that funds everything but DHS, that that
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  Speaker 2: might be that might pass. In terms of DHS, I
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  Speaker 2: think the Democrats are going to force a shutdown, and
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  Speaker 2: I think they want it to be extended and in order.
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  Speaker 3: This is not a short one.
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  Speaker 1: To be clear, you think they want this to be painful,
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  Speaker 1: almost like they're running in the midterms on this issue
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  Speaker 1: of ICE.
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  Speaker 2: I think they want to be able to tell their base,
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  Speaker 2: we are defunding ICE, we are abolishing ICE, we are
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  Speaker 2: against law enforcement, we're with the criminals.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's their messaging.
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  Speaker 1: It isn't all out civil war. That's what the Democrats
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  Speaker 1: said they wanted in Minnesota. But now Tim Waltz is
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  Speaker 1: called President Donald Trump. And here's what we've been told
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  Speaker 1: about that conversation, Donald Trump putting up on true social
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  Speaker 1: The Governor Tim Waltz called me with a request to
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  Speaker 1: work together with respect to Minnesota. It was a very
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  Speaker 1: good call, and we actually seem to be on a
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  Speaker 1: similar wavelength. I told Governor Waltz that I would have
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  Speaker 1: Tom Homan call him and that what we're looking for
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  Speaker 1: are any and all criminals that they have in their possession.
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  Speaker 1: This is exactly, by the way, what hundreds of other
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  Speaker 1: cities do when they catch a criminals, a legal immigrant,
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  Speaker 1: and then they work with federal authorities ice to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that they are taken into custody. That's not what
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  Speaker 1: they do in sanctuary cities or states like Minnesota. Back
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  Speaker 1: to the President's own words, the governor very respectfully understood that,
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  Speaker 1: and I will be speaking to him in the near future.
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  Speaker 1: He was happy that Tom Homan was going to Minnesota,
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  Speaker 1: and so am I. We have such tremendous success in Washington,
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  Speaker 1: d C. Memphis, Tennessee and New Orleans, Louisiana and virtually
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  Speaker 1: every other place we have touched, and even in Minnesota,
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  Speaker 1: crime is way down, but both Governor Waltz and I
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  Speaker 1: want to make it better.
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  Speaker 3: President Donald J. Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Now that wasn't all that the President had to say
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  Speaker 1: on this issue. He also hours before that put out
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  Speaker 1: this statement on true social I'm sending Tom home into
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota tonight. He has not been involved in the area,
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  Speaker 1: but knows and likes many of the people there. Tom
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  Speaker 1: is tough, but fair and report directly to me. Separately,
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  Speaker 1: a major investigation is going on with respect to the
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  Speaker 1: massive twenty billion dollar plus welfare fraud that has taken
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  Speaker 1: place in Minnesota and is at least partially responsible for
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  Speaker 1: the violent, organized protests going on the streets. Additionally, the
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  Speaker 1: DOJ and Congress are looking at Congresswoman Elamo mar who
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  Speaker 1: left Somalia with nothing and is now reportedly worth more
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  Speaker 1: than forty four million dollars. Time will tell all. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for your attention this matter. President Donald J.
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  Speaker 3: Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Now you put that together with the White House Press Secretary,
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  Speaker 1: as she laid it out today from the podium at
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  Speaker 1: the White House, exactly what the plan is and what
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  Speaker 1: the presidents had to say about moving forward and keeping
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  Speaker 1: all Americans safe. The President wants law and order, not
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  Speaker 1: anarchy and chaos, which is what Governor Wald and Mayor
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  Speaker 1: Fry have given us. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 6: It is President Trump's hope and wish in demand for
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  Speaker 6: the resistance in chaos to end today. That's why President
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  Speaker 6: Trump spoke with Governor Walsh directly this morning, and he
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  Speaker 6: has outlined a clear and simple path to restoring law
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  Speaker 6: and order in Minnesota. Number One, Governor Waltz, Mayor Fry
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  Speaker 6: and all Democrat leaders should turn over all criminal illegal
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  Speaker 6: aliens currently incarcerated in their prisons in jails to federal authorities,
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  Speaker 6: along with any illegal aliens with active warrants or known
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  Speaker 6: criminal histories for immediate deportation. Number two, State and local
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  Speaker 6: law enforcement must agree to turn over all illegal alas
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  Speaker 6: millions who are arrested by local police. And then, thirdly,
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  Speaker 6: local police must assist federal law enforcement in apprehending, in
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  Speaker 6: detaining illegal aliens who are wanted for crimes, especially violent crimes.
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  Speaker 6: If Governor Walls in Marefry implement these common sense cooperative
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  Speaker 6: measures that I will add have already been implemented in
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  Speaker 6: nearly every single other state across the country, Customs and
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  Speaker 6: border patrol will not be needed to support ICE on
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  Speaker 6: the ground in Minnesota. ICE in local law enforcement can
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  Speaker 6: peacefully work together, as they are effectively doing in so
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  Speaker 6: many other states and jurisdictions. Additionally, President Trump is calling
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  Speaker 6: on the United States Congress to immediately pass legislation ending
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  Speaker 6: sanctuary cities once and for all. American cities should be
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  Speaker 6: safe sanctuaries for law abiding citizens only, not for dangerous
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  Speaker 6: illegal alien criminals who broke our nation's laws and do
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  Speaker 6: not belong here. We hope Governor Walls will contill, do
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  Speaker 6: the right thing and continue to work with President Trump
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  Speaker 6: to keep the American people safe. Following their call this morning,
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  Speaker 6: Americans overwhelmingly want exactly what President Trump is delivering, strong
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  Speaker 6: borders in strict immigration enforcement against the worst illegal aliens,
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  Speaker 6: of which there are still hundreds of thousands to deport
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  Speaker 6: from the interior of our country. The most peaceful way
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  Speaker 6: to carry out this vital public safety mission is for
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  Speaker 6: Republicans and Democrats to do it together, and for state
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: and local law enforcement to work together with federal law enforcement.
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: We want to let cops be cops. You wouldn't know
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: this continues to be a very popular policy position from
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: the biased media coverage over the course of the last
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: few days, but polling shows huge support for this exact thing.
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: President Trump is calling for. More than eighty percent of
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: Americans favor deporting illegal aliens convicted of violent crimes. A
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: country unable to deport criminals who enter it illegally is
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: no country at ours. The Open Border's agenda of Kamala
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: Harris Tim Walls into Democrats was already on the ballot
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: on November fifth, twenty twenty four, and it was resoundingly rejected.
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: President Trump will never back down from his promise to
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: deport violent, criminal illegal aliens and make America safe again.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Caroline Levit is absolutely right.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: The President was elected to do exactly what he's been doing,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: and that is getting the worst among us out of
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: this country that broke into this country illegally. And if
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: you go back to exactly what the White House put out,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: they've made it clear and transparent what they are demanding.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Number One, that Governor Waltson, Mayor Fryme and all the
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Democratic leaders should turn over all criminal legal aliens currently
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: incarcerated in their prisons and jails to federal authorities, along
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: with any illegal aliens with active warrants or known criminal
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: histories for immediate deportation. They also demand that state local
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: law enforcement must agree to turn over all illegal aliens
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: arrested by local police. Now, again, this is all exactly
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: what the law is state you must do. The President
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: is not asking for anything outside of what the state
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: of laws.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: Say in this country.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Number three, local police must assist federal law enforcement and
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: apprehending and detaining illegal aliens wanted for crimes. Ice and
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: local law enforcement can peacefully work together, as they are
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: effectively doing in so many other states and jurisdictions to
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: remove violent criminals from American neighborhoods. There are literally hundreds
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: of cities in America where what you're witnessing in Minnesota
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: is not happening because law enforcement is working together. That's
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: what it's supposed to be. Many times when you see
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: tragedies where they say, they say local law enforcement and
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: federal law enforcement are working together. Right, local, state and
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: federal working together, especially when you're dealing with criminals. But
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: these individuals like Governor Walton mayor Fry refuse to do this.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: They put illegal immigrant criminals ahead of a mayor American
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: citizens the other thing.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: The President said.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Additionally, he's calling on the United States Congress to immediately
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: pass legislation ending sanctuary cities once and for all, because
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: he understands that every time there's a safe haven for
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: these types of criminals, it cost Americans their lives. It
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: allows them a safe haven to set up corruption and
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: also to set up crime syndicates. It also allows for
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: illegal immigrants to steal from American taxpayers. We've witnessed all
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: of that in Minneapolis and the surrounding area. American cities,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: he said, should be safe sanctuaries for law abiding citizens only,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: not for dangerous legal alien criminals who broke our laws
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: and do not belong here.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: He said this, we.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Hope Governor Waltz will do the right thing and work
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: with President Trump and his team to keep America and
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: the American people safe. So it is clear now the
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: President of United States and America saying look, I am
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: representing you. Americans overwhelmingly did exactly that. An election day.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: They wanted strong borders, They wanted strict immigration enforcement against
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: the worst criminal legal aliens, of which there are still
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands to deport from the interior of our country.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: You wouldn't know it, the President says, from the bias
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: media coverage. The polls show huge support for this very thing.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: More than eighty percent of Americans favor deporting legal aliens
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: convicted of violent crimes. The most peaceful way to carry
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: out this vital public safety mission, the White House says,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: is for Republicans and Democrats to do it together, and
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: for local and state law enforcement to work with federal
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: law enforcement to get it done together. President Trump also
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: saying he will never back down from the promise to
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: deport all violent criminal legal aliens and make America safe again.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: There are a lot of Americans that are asking this
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: question about what's happening in Minnesota, and that is hold
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: on a second. As we're talking about ICE and all
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: the attacks on ICE agents and the shootings, what happened
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: to the billions of dollars in fraud that was uncovered, Well,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: we're looking into that. That's exactly what we know is
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: coming out of the FBI. But what the FBI Director
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Cash Hotel also says is there's going to be a
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: full investigation into the active actions of the left wing
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: terrorist organizations that are doing much of this in Minnesota.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: He said this earlier today on my good friend Benny
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Johnson's show. Take a listen.
• 24:40
  Speaker 7: Okay, so this is breaking news. So you are you
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: and the FBI and perhaps other intelligence agencies are fully
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: aware of this coordinated effort to attack federal law enforcement,
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: to impede them and potentially insurrect and so there is
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: now an open investigation into the into these chats and
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: into this coordinated network. Yeah, some of them are fleeing.
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: Some of them are very scared now you can see
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: their chats. They're they're very, very worried now that they
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: have been exposed.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: Well they should be.
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: If they broke the law, you should be worried. It's
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: that simple. If you didn't break the law, there's really
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: nothing to worry about on that front. And so you know,
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: we're going to continue as I've said from day one.
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: We will protect law enforcement. We will make sure they
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: have the security and safety to do their jobs. We
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: will also ensure that civilians have the ultimate protection of
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: the First and Second Amendment. But it is my job
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: to adjudicate the difference when there is a breaking a
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: federal statute or state law in the furtherance of a
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: crime or violence against law enforcement officers, and that's when
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: we step in.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: And that is when we step in.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Now. He wasn't done there. He also talked about they've
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: identified the funders behind the left wing groups attacking ice
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: in Minnesota and what does that look.
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: Like, Ash, You've been doing And I saw some announcements
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: just this morning, some major arrests of some is the
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: left wing terrorists who've been attacking law enforcement, attacking federal agents,
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: stealing rifles. I believe it was an FBI rifle or
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: a DOJ rifle. In this January fourteenth attacking. Gives update
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: on that.
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, Look, we've always said that, you know, we
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: are going to defend absolutely your right to peacefully protest
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: under the First Amendment, and we're also always going to
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: uphold your right to bare arms in the Second Amendment.
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: That's never changed. We're going to equally protect all of
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: those The only thing we're not going to do is
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: allow any of those amendments to be violated when you
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: pursue a course of action of violence against law enforcement.
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: It's that simple. That position has never changed. So on
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: January fourteenth, you referenced a mob literally rioted and destroyed
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: federal police vehicles. Of course we jumped into action. We
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: caught and arrested four individuals responsible for breaking those vehicles
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: apart and dismandling them completely. But I have an update
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: for you. In that vehicle was not just firearms pitmich
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: thankfully we recovered, but was information about law enforcement agents
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: and their personal information. Individuals use that personal information on
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: the ground to issue threats of life against not only
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: FBI agents, but their wives and their children. So just
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: last night, the FBI arrested one of the individuals responsible
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: for making those threats to federal law enforcement. And we're
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: going to have more rest on that same matter today
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: and tomorrow.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: We're not done.
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: And that's the distinction. You want to go out there
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: and peacefully protests, have at it, You want to go
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: out there and use your secondment and right to bear arms. Okay,
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: no problem, But look at the situation in Minnesota. This
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: is not something that just happened overnight. They've been riding recklessly,
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: destroying federal vehicles, ramming federal agents, literally hitting them, striking them,
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: and as you just highlighted, using coordinated attacks to threaten
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: their families none of that is lawful and none of
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: that will be tolerated. You do not get to touch
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: law enforcement. And we've got also investigations on going into
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: the funding of this. We've made actual, substantial progress. I
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: just can't publicize it yet, but we've actually found groups
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: and individuals responsible for funding it because it's not happening organically.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: It's not happening organically. Now we also know the FBI
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Director Cash Pattel, spoke about the investigation underway in the
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Minnesota shooting. There's a lot of people that are obsessed
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: over that most recent shooting, and this is what he
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: had to say about the transparency aspect of that investigation.
• 28:30
  Speaker 8: Joining me now with more on the investigation is the
• 28:33
  Speaker 8: director of the FBI, Cash Partel. Director. Thanks sorry much
• 28:37
  Speaker 8: for being here this morning. And I know that this
• 28:40
  Speaker 8: is a DHS investigation, but there is outrage across the
• 28:45
  Speaker 8: country that there is another killing. Someone is dead at
• 28:50
  Speaker 8: the hands of border patrol. What can you tell us?
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: Great to be with you, Maria, and look. Secretary Nome
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: stated perfectly, you do not get to attack law enforcement
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: officials in this country out any repercussions. You do not
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: get to do that. In Minnesota, LA, or anywhere else,
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: and the interagency is leading the charge out there. We've
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: already arrested with the interagency those that violated the Face
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: Act and impeded a priestful prayer in church. We've already
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: just last night arrested four more individuals involved in the
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: damage of government property that we saw the videos of online.
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: We've arrested in other individuals who've meant threats to law
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: enforcement online, So we are not messing around. It doesn't
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: have to be in person. If you threaten law enforcement
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: officials or civilians, we are going to come find you.
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: And as for this latest shooting, yes, DHS and HSI
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: are the lead and the FBI is processing the physical evidence.
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: So we're in possession of the firearm, which is going
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: to go to our laboratory. But as Secretary Nome said,
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: no one who wants to be peaceful shows up as
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: a protest with a firearm that is loaded with two
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: full magazines. That is not a peaceful protest. And you
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: do not get to touch law enforcement. You do that anywhere.
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: This FBI is going to be following leading the charge to.
• 29:57
  Speaker 8: Arrest those But how was he threatened? Border Patrol you've
• 30:01
  Speaker 8: collected the evidence. You said, right, you have the handgun
• 30:04
  Speaker 8: in your possession, that's right. And how was he using
• 30:07
  Speaker 8: that handgun in terms of threatening border patrol? What was
• 30:09
  Speaker 8: the threat? He had his camera right, he was filming it.
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: That's something that I let the DHS and the prosecutors
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: because they are the ones investigating in that case. I
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: don't want to stylize that evidence, but I trust the
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: men and women on the ground, who are trained professionals,
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: to only use it when it's absolutely necessary. And I
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: trust Secretary of NOMES leadership and DHS and HSI to
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: do the right thing as they've always done in these scenarios.
• 30:29
  Speaker 8: Christinomes said that the individual approached US Border patrol officers
• 30:33
  Speaker 8: with a nine millimeters semi automatic handgun. Was the gun
• 30:38
  Speaker 8: visible or did border patrol see the gun after they
• 30:42
  Speaker 8: shot him?
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: Again, all the moose pieces of the investigator are being
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: led by DHS and HSI, and I don't want to
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: comment on their ongoing investigation.
• 30:50
  Speaker 8: I understand, but you have the evidence. What can you
• 30:53
  Speaker 8: tell us about the evidence you collected?
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: It's center our AFTERBI laboratory where it'll be fingerpristed, will
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: use ballistics examination to kids to see if any casings
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: were fired, and we'll examine all the casings that were
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: found on the scene.
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: How much.
• 31:08
  Speaker 8: Of this has to do with some of the rhetoric
• 31:11
  Speaker 8: in your view, Just two weeks ago, the Governor Tim
• 31:15
  Speaker 8: Waltz told residents to get their phones and start filming
• 31:20
  Speaker 8: whatever is happening, and when they see border patrol, listen
• 31:23
  Speaker 8: to this. This is just two weeks ago from Governor
• 31:25
  Speaker 8: Tim Walt's watch.
• 31:28
  Speaker 9: If you see these ICE agents in your neighborhood, take
• 31:32
  Speaker 9: out that phone and hit record. Help us create a
• 31:34
  Speaker 9: database of the atrocities against Minnesotan's not just to establish
• 31:39
  Speaker 9: a record for posterity, but to bank evidence for future prosecution.
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: Your reaction, I think that type of rhetoric is exactly
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: what's leading to violence against law enforcement. That is totally
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: baseless and unnecessary. And for the state CEO to do
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: that against our law enforcement communities disgusting and revolting, and
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: it should be examined thoroughly as to anyone who's in
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: inciting this type of violence. It is absolutely improper, unlawful
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: and will not be tolerated any type of violence against
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: law enforcement.
• 32:07
  Speaker 8: But it's not stopping people are mad at ice and
• 32:12
  Speaker 8: want border patrol to stop. You saw what's happening right
• 32:16
  Speaker 8: now in Minneapolis. People are protesting in the streets, pushing
• 32:19
  Speaker 8: border patrol out. How will this end?
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: This will add thanks to President Trump's brilliant leadership to
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: always back the blue. Law enforcement will hold the day.
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: The constitution and the rule of law will hold the day.
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: It is a tough time right now, but I believe
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: that our law enforcement officials on the ground, DHS, FBI,
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: local police force across the country are moving in the
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: right direction, and we will call these rights and we
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: will prevail. That's what we always do.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: You can hear Caysh Mattel making it clear they're not
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: going to back down. They're going to do what the
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: law says. They're going to go after the worst and
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: no matter what the Left tries to do, including mcgovernor
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: as you heard there just two weeks ago, in a
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: official address to the people in his state. I want
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: to be clear that was an official address, like what
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: you would see the equivalent from the Oval office. It
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: is truly incredible to watch a governor tell his citizens
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: to turn on law enforcement. If you want to know
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: how we got to where we are now with the
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: anarchy and the chaos and the streets and people's lives
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: that have been lost. It is because of this rhetoric.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Now the President is saying two things. One, we're going
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: to look into the corruption of the fraud. We're opening
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: investigations where we believe there needs to be investigations and
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: there will be accountability for these actions. He also says
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: we're going to look into people like elam Omar, and
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: we're not just gonna sit back and act like what
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: they've done had nothing to do with corruption either. They're
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: going on a fact finding mission and if Democrats are
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: upset about that, the question that should be asked now
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: is what are they hiding? I think we should know
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: who's paying.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: For all of this.
• 34:09
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