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DOJ Inquiry into Hunter Biden as a 'Foreign Agent' Ramps Up! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: We've got a lot to talk about and a lot
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Speaker 1: to get you updated on. There's three major stories right now. One,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna get you a major update on what's happening
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Speaker 1: between the war between Israel and Hamas and some changes
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Speaker 1: happening over there from the terrorist side of things. The
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Speaker 1: Hamas spokesman has come out with some pretty chilling words.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna explain that in a moment. Also number two,
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Speaker 1: we have a big grassroots effort right now behind getting
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Speaker 1: a new speaker. That speaker would be someone I consider friend,
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Speaker 1: Jim Jordan. The grassroots want him to be the speaker,
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Speaker 1: and some of those that were trying to stop him
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Speaker 1: are now coalescing behind him, meaning he could very well
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Speaker 1: become the next Speaker of the House. We'll talk about that,
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Speaker 1: but before we get to that, there is a story
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Speaker 1: that is not being covered and it deals with the
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Speaker 1: Biden crime family. Hunter Biden, it's pretty clear was acting
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Speaker 1: as a foreign agent while he was working for some
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Speaker 1: of the most shady bad actors in the world. World.
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Speaker 1: Hunter Biden was taking money and acting on behalf of
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Speaker 1: people like Barisma in Ukraine. In America, that's when you
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Speaker 1: would have to register as a foreign agent. It's something,
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Speaker 1: by the way, he knew, and it's something he didn't
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Speaker 1: want to do. We have emails from Hunter Biden talking
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Speaker 1: about how he does not want to have to actually
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Speaker 1: register as a foreign agent. He didn't want to do it,
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Speaker 1: probably because it would actually bring a lot of negative
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Speaker 1: light to some of the financial crimes and corruption around
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Speaker 1: the Biden crime family. That's why he said it very
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Speaker 1: clearly in emails. He did not want to register as
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Speaker 1: a foreign agent. His brother or his uncle, Joe Biden's brother,
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Speaker 1: did not want to register as a foreign agent. In fact,
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Speaker 1: all of the Bidens who were on the take and
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Speaker 1: there's at least nine people with the last name Biden
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Speaker 1: that were on the take from their financial crimes and
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Speaker 1: their corruption, none of them registered as a foreign agent.
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Speaker 1: There is a new inquiry and it comes as the
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Speaker 1: Department of Justice has ramped up a quote previously rare
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Speaker 1: enforcement is how the USA today is putting it out
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Speaker 1: this morning. The investigation they write of Hunter Biden under
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Speaker 1: the Foreign Agents Registration Act is in addition to federal
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Speaker 1: gun charges and a tax inquiry. They're now saying that
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Speaker 1: this is actually happening. Quote while grappling with gun charges
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Speaker 1: and tax of investigation. Hunter Biden now faces potentially a
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Speaker 1: third set of charges his decision to not register as
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Speaker 1: a foreign agent while working for companies in Ukraine and China.
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Speaker 1: Now those are the ones we know of. There may
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Speaker 1: have been other instances in other countries where he was
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Speaker 1: working for them, like in Russia, in Romania and Mexico.
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Speaker 1: The list could get even bigger than that. From what
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Speaker 1: we understand, the inquiry comes to the Justice Department is
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Speaker 1: recalibrating its enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act known
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Speaker 1: as FAARAH, for people to report their work for foreign
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Speaker 1: governments trying to influence US policy. An Inspector General's report
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Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen found prosecutions and other enforcement actions were
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Speaker 1: quote unquote rare and consisted mostly of civil requests to
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Speaker 1: register retroactively. But after Russian interference in the twenty sixteen election,
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Speaker 1: which by the way, was debunked, the Department ramped up
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Speaker 1: criminal enforcement, with maximum penalties for violations of five years
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Speaker 1: in prison and a two hundred and fifty thousand dollars fine.
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Speaker 1: Senator Bob Menendez, the Democrat for New Jersey, was indicted,
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Speaker 1: as you know, last week, for an alleged conspiracy to
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Speaker 1: violate the Act as a foreign agent for Egypt while
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Speaker 1: a sitting US senator. Now, the results of criminal prosecutions
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Speaker 1: have been mixed. Several high profile associates of Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: were convicted and he pardoned them. Other defendants accused of
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Speaker 1: being foreign agents had charged charges, dismiss or won acquittals
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Speaker 1: in the highly politicized atmosphere. The Justice Department Special Counsel
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Speaker 1: David Weiss has confirmed he is investigating whether Hunter Biden
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Speaker 1: should have registered his overseas work. Congressional Republicans have made
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Speaker 1: it clear through the facts that Biden was getting preferential
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Speaker 1: treatment as the president son from the government based on
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Speaker 1: what he was doing and how much money he was
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Speaker 1: making from overseas clients, clearly trying to influence US policy.
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Speaker 1: Hunter Biden's lawyer, Abe Lau, won the acquittal of another
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Speaker 1: defendant who was charged with acting as a foreign agent.
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Speaker 1: That's part of the reason why Hunter Biden clearly hired him.
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Speaker 1: So many have asked, Okay, what is the Foreign Agents
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Speaker 1: Registration Act. It's a great question. It's actually very simple.
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Speaker 1: This should not be complicated, and that's why I want
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Speaker 1: you to understand it. Congress adopted the Foreign Agents Registration
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Speaker 1: Act in nineteen thirty eight. They updated it many times
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Speaker 1: since then. What was the purpose? One thing, to reduce
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Speaker 1: the influence of foreign propaganda and foreign agents who are
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Speaker 1: defined as operating under the direction or control of a
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Speaker 1: foreign government that specifically seeks to influence United States policy.
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Speaker 1: If you are doing that, you must register with the
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Speaker 1: Justice Department to disclose that effort. A related statue also
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Speaker 1: prohibits acting as a foreign agent. The problem with the act,
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Speaker 1: according to quote unquote legal experts that USA Today talked to,
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Speaker 1: is determining when somebody is just advocating for another country
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Speaker 1: and when the person is acting under the foreign government's
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Speaker 1: direction or control, as the statue states quote. Part of
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Speaker 1: the problem is that the law is very vague. Nobody
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Speaker 1: knows what it means to be an agent. So the
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Speaker 1: former federal prosecutor and now a partner at a law
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Speaker 1: firm who wont acquittal for a defendant charge of being
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Speaker 1: a foreign agent. It's a very vague statue and it's
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Speaker 1: capable of being misused by the Justice Department. Now this
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Speaker 1: isn't actually that complicated. I want to be clear, Okay,
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Speaker 1: it's actually pretty simple. It's not that complicated, and there
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Speaker 1: are a lot of people that need to understand that
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Speaker 1: it's not that complicated. Hunter Biden. When he's taking directions
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Speaker 1: from foreign governments like China, that is when you know, okay,
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Speaker 1: that you are acting as a foreign agent. Yes, it
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Speaker 1: is actually that simple. It's not hard, folks, It's that simple.
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Speaker 1: When you are taking millions and millions of dollars and
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Speaker 1: in return, okay, you are getting access to the US
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Speaker 1: government and favors from the president or the vice president
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Speaker 1: I States of America, depending on when the funds are
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Speaker 1: being transferred. You're acting at that point as a foreign agent.
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Speaker 1: If you are Hunter Biden. When that company is hiring
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Speaker 1: you not for advice, but for influence in America and
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Speaker 1: to influence policy directed at that country, again, you are
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Speaker 1: acting as a foreign agent. I'll give you even a
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Speaker 1: better example. When you are making millions of dollars, okay,
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Speaker 1: millions of dollars sitting on the board of Barisma, Ukrainian company,
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Speaker 1: and that company is being investigated and that company needs
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Speaker 1: America to come in and put influence in a foreign
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Speaker 1: policy okay, influence over that country and trying to get
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Speaker 1: that prosecutor fired. That would be clearly acting as a
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Speaker 1: foreign agent. Now this really isn't that controversial. I want
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Speaker 1: to be clear about this, like, this is not a
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Speaker 1: crazy idea. This is a very clear violation of the
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Speaker 1: foreign agents and and not registering as a foreign agent.
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Speaker 1: You're acting on behalf of that country at the direction
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Speaker 1: of that country. The same thing with China. It was
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Speaker 1: obvious that the reason why there were such big checks
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Speaker 1: that were written to the Biden crime family from China
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Speaker 1: is because in China they wanted one thing, Right, what
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Speaker 1: did they want? They wanted one thing. They wanted one
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Speaker 1: thing and one thing only, and that one thing that
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Speaker 1: they wanted was influence over American policy. There was no
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Speaker 1: reason to write the checks coming in from China if
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Speaker 1: it wasn't for foreign policy. Another example of that is
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Speaker 1: all of the land deals that they were trying to
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Speaker 1: get their hands on for natural gas and oil coming
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Speaker 1: out of Louisiana. Let's dive into an example of one
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Speaker 1: of the deals that the Biden crime family was working on,
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Speaker 1: a deal that clearly shows that Hunter Biden was acting
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Speaker 1: as a foreign agent. Documents now show and the laptop
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Speaker 1: from Hell Hunter Biden's laptop show that Hunter Biden was
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Speaker 1: using his family leverage in prospective deal to sell Louisiana
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Speaker 1: natural gas directly to China and a Chinese firm it
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Speaker 1: was controlled by the Chinese Communist Party and government. The
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Speaker 1: Biden family was set to benefit from a deal to
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Speaker 1: transfer American natural gas to Chinese energy company CEFC through
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Speaker 1: a perspective twenty seventeen deal by Hunter and Jim Biden.
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Speaker 1: That's the President's brother, according to these newly uncovered documents,
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Speaker 1: as a Biden administration now massively scales back United States
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Speaker 1: energy production. Documents never previously report on from that laptop
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Speaker 1: belonging to Hunter Biden show that the Biden family was
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Speaker 1: working on a deal in twenty seventeen to transfer liquid
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Speaker 1: natural gas from Louisiana to CEFC, the same Chinese firm
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Speaker 1: with which Hunter also discussed a business venture that would
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Speaker 1: have quote ten percent held for H held by H.
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Speaker 1: I should say that's Hunter for the big guy, that's Joe.
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Speaker 1: That wouldn't stop the Chinese players in this deal, even
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Speaker 1: after that deal never materialize. From going on to push
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Speaker 1: Hunter to help his father mount a bid for the
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Speaker 1: president see a couple of years after. In an email
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Speaker 1: from October to twenty third twenty seventeen, an intermediary by
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Speaker 1: the name of Jiqui Bio between Hunter Biden and his
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Speaker 1: Chinese business associates in an email, thinking Hunter and Joe
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Speaker 1: Biden's brother Jim for arranging a meeting with Michaels liquification
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Speaker 1: facility in Louisiana called Monkey Island LNG Liquid Natural Gas
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Speaker 1: and detailing plans for what we'll be discussed. Quote, we
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Speaker 1: have a ten thirty am meeting tomorrow at three CC.
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Speaker 1: Greg Michaels, the president Monkey Island Liquid Natural Gas Termine
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Speaker 1: Project of Louisiana. Thank you for Jim and Hunter for
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Speaker 1: bringing the owner to talk to us directly, she writes,
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Speaker 1: an email receipt by Hunter, Jim and gong Win Dog,
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Speaker 1: a Chinese investor involved in multiple deals linked to the Bidens.
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Speaker 1: Leveraging the family name to secure high profile meetings for
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Speaker 1: foreign clients was not just a good deal for Hunter
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Speaker 1: and Jim Biden, but for their bottom line. Okay, right there, enough,
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Speaker 1: there's enough evidence that the bare minimum you should have
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Speaker 1: been registered as a foreign agent. You're working on behalf
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Speaker 1: of a Chinese company that directly connected the Chinese Communist Party,
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Speaker 1: and you're trying to leverage the family name to secure
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Speaker 1: these meetings on behalf of foreign clients. You're acting as
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Speaker 1: a foreign agent. You're not acting on behalf of America.
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Speaker 1: You're acting on behalf. You're acting on behalf of China,
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Speaker 1: the Chinese. It had been previously reported by the way
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Speaker 1: by the New York Post that Hunter was responsible for
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Speaker 1: family expenses with one hundred ones, telling his daughter that
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Speaker 1: he had to pay for everything for the entire family.
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Speaker 1: Remember that it was reported back in July, saying this quote,
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Speaker 1: I hope all you can do what I did and
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Speaker 1: pay for everything for the entire family for thirty years.
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Speaker 1: Hunter wrote in that twenty nineteen text message to his
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Speaker 1: daughter Naomi that was found on that laptop. It's really hard,
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Speaker 1: he said, but don't worry. Unlike Pop, referring to Joe,
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Speaker 1: I won't make you give me half your salary. In
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Speaker 1: another email in October, the twenty nine, twenty seventeen by
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Speaker 1: our rights to discuss plans for the business venture, saying
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Speaker 1: Hunter is the best person to help his friend, the
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Speaker 1: CEFC chairman ye Ying Ming, because he has quote access,
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Speaker 1: listen carefully to decision makers required to approve the transfer
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Speaker 1: of essentral natural resources to foreign entities. That is example
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Speaker 1: number two where clearly Hunter Biden and James Biden, the
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Speaker 1: President's brothers, should have been registered as foreign agents. This
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Speaker 1: email from this Chinese individual writing to discuss the plans
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Speaker 1: for the business venture, saying Hunter is the best person
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Speaker 1: to help his friend, the chairman Yee, because he has
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Speaker 1: access to decision makers required to prove the transfer of
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Speaker 1: es central natural resources to foreign entities. You're acting as
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Speaker 1: a foreign agent. You're acting not on behalf of America,
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Speaker 1: You're acting on behalf of China, Communist China. At that point,
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Speaker 1: it's very clear. It's said in black and white by
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Speaker 1: the foreigners that are telling you this is what they
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Speaker 1: are doing. This is the foreigner saying this is what's happening.
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Speaker 1: The foreigners are telling you from China that they are
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Speaker 1: working on behalf, that Hunter Biden is working on their
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Speaker 1: behalf to secure American access and giving these resources that
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Speaker 1: have to have the approval of the government of the
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Speaker 1: United States America before the deal could be done. What
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Speaker 1: other evidence do you need that Hunter Biden was clearly
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Speaker 1: and Joe Biden's brother and maybe other people and the
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Speaker 1: Biden crime family were clearly acting as foreign agents. Now
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Speaker 1: you go back to this investigation. They're going to try
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Speaker 1: to make the waters here, Okay, They're going to try
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Speaker 1: to do everything they can to make it look like
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Speaker 1: you that this is a possibility somehow, some way, that
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Speaker 1: this isn't real, that this was in a gray area,
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Speaker 1: that they weren't really acting on behalf of foreign governments
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Speaker 1: or foreign entities. If anyone says that, just go back
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Speaker 1: and read the damn emails. Go back and read what
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Speaker 1: the Chinese were saying in their own words. Look at
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Speaker 1: how they described their interactions with Hunter Biden and James Biden,
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Speaker 1: the President's brother. They said and described them as the
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Speaker 1: best person for the job. Job meaning a job meaning
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Speaker 1: that there's money, there's a transaction, We hire them. We
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Speaker 1: need American influence, We need American influence on the American
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Speaker 1: government to approve this deal, because you're transferring natural resources
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Speaker 1: to China from the United States of America. Who can
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Speaker 1: get that done? And they immediately identify the Biden crime
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Speaker 1: family that is acting as a foreign agent for a
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Speaker 1: foreign government. You're not looking out for America's best interest
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Speaker 1: in that moment. You're clearly looking out for the interests
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Speaker 1: of a foreign government the Chinese, and they're paying you
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Speaker 1: a lot of money to do it. Let's get into
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Speaker 1: the speakers race now, because this is a very important
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Speaker 1: topic and it is something that look, I don't know
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Speaker 1: what's going to happen until it happens. Anyone that tells
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Speaker 1: you that they know that someone's going to win or not,
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Speaker 1: they hadn't been paying attention. Anything can go off the
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Speaker 1: rails when you're dealing with crazy people, okay, and you're
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Speaker 1: dealing with Congress, so there's by to fall a hell
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Speaker 1: of a lot of crazy people there. Here's what I
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Speaker 1: can tell you. Grassroots conservatives nationwide have really gone and
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Speaker 1: made a lot of phone calls and rallied behind Representative
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Speaker 1: Jim Jordan, who was trying to lock down the speakership
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Speaker 1: in a afternoon vote. This is going to be an
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Speaker 1: important vote. Activists have been melting the phone lines with
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Speaker 1: respectful pleas to gop members of Congress to unify and
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Speaker 1: in the conference's division and finally elect Jordan's Speaker of
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Speaker 1: the House. Now, there were some rhinos, some scumbag Republicans
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Speaker 1: in the House that were actually talking about working with
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Speaker 1: the Democrats to have what they referred to as a
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Speaker 1: unity candidate, which is crap. That means it would be
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Speaker 1: a moderate at best some of the Democrats would support.
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Speaker 1: There would be some really shady and corrupt deals that
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Speaker 1: would be done in that scenario. Just so you know,
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Speaker 1: top conservative activists are now rallying the base nationwide and
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Speaker 1: calls are pouring into the Capital switchboard and specific offices
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Speaker 1: are now feeling that heat with so many different people.
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Speaker 1: They're saying, get it together, get it done, all right,
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Speaker 1: like just just hurry up and get it done. Quote unquote,
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Speaker 1: I haven't seen anything like this in years, is what
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Speaker 1: one top House GOP aid said. They are literally melting
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Speaker 1: the phone line. Some office numbers are permanently busy. Thousands
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Speaker 1: and thousands of people are calling their members of Congress
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Speaker 1: demanding Jordan be the Speaker of the House now. Jordan's
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Speaker 1: grassroots strength is no surprise. He was the founding chairman
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Speaker 1: of the House Freedom Caucus and has long been on
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Speaker 1: the forefront of issues motivating the Republican base nationally. There's
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Speaker 1: been an overwhelming level of organized nature of his support
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Speaker 1: from conservative leaders nationwide who are saying, we are going
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Speaker 1: to make him the speaker. This has caught a lot
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Speaker 1: of the Rhinos by surprise. Throughout the day on Monday,
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Speaker 1: for example, one by one, previous critics of Jim Jordan
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Speaker 1: and his speakership bid have fallen in low hmid A Baraja,
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Speaker 1: phone calls from grassroots activists urging unity behind Jordan as
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Speaker 1: the GOP conference nominee for speaker, and as Jordan has
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Speaker 1: worked the inside room of the with these congressmen with
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Speaker 1: personal phone calls to many of them. The first to
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Speaker 1: back Jordan after previously opposing Jordan was Mike Rogers. He's
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Speaker 1: a Republican from Alabama. He's the chairman of the powerful
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Speaker 1: House Armed Services Committee. Rogers' office over the weekend and
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Speaker 1: early Monday was flooded with phone calls pressuring him to
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Speaker 1: back Jordan. Meanwhile, Rogers and Jordan had multiple conversations between themselves,
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Speaker 1: and then finally Rogers did the right thing, backing down
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Speaker 1: and endorsing Jordan for speaker. Conservatives, by the way, have
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Speaker 1: been thinking Rogers all day since then, because he was
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Speaker 1: a big geit, and if he was going to coalesce,
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Speaker 1: there was a very good chance you could get others
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Speaker 1: to do the same thing. That's how we're getting to
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Speaker 1: where we are now. Debbie Duley wrote this on Twitter,
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Speaker 1: victory your calls worked represented. Mike Rogers just endorsed Jim
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Speaker 1: Jordan for Speaker and is asking the remaining holdouts to
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Speaker 1: support Jordan as well. Stop calls asking for his removal
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Speaker 1: from his chairmanship. It's vital that you call and thank
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Speaker 1: him for doing the right thing. That's again very important
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Speaker 1: that this happened. Grassroots conservatives have basically repeated the same
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Speaker 1: simple strategy all day on Monday with other holdouts and
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Speaker 1: had great success as many conservatives got together on social
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Speaker 1: media and started putting out a list of who you
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Speaker 1: need to call and why. All right, and this was
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Speaker 1: a very smart move. Some of those holdouts we were
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Speaker 1: Ken Calvert, Republican from California, and Wagner, Republican from Missouri,
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Speaker 1: Rob Whitman, Republican from Virginia, vern but Buckingham republic from Florida.
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Speaker 1: They've all now come to the side of Jordan. I'll
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Speaker 1: give you another example. Thanks Rob, Rob Whitman, you're the best.
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Speaker 1: I knew someone put you on this list by mistake.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for bringing us together. Now let's do this, Jim Jordan.
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Speaker 1: Let's go, is what one conservative commentator said on Twitter
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Speaker 1: after Representative Rob Whitman put out a tweet saying quote,
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Speaker 1: I just had a productive conversation with Jim Jordan about
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Speaker 1: our shared priorities for this Congress. We both agreed on
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Speaker 1: the need to pass a strong DAA, find our government,
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Speaker 1: support our troops, and secure our border. Jim has my
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Speaker 1: support for speaker. Now, there are many out there that
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Speaker 1: did an amazing job of getting this to happen. The
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Speaker 1: level of grassroots focus across the board was unparalleled to
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Speaker 1: get Jim Jordan this speakership, and that's what people need
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Speaker 1: to understand. There were grassroots people in different states that
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Speaker 1: we're putting out tweets like this one. We need everyone
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Speaker 1: on board for this. Please call your congressman at two
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Speaker 1: O two two two four three one two one and
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Speaker 1: tell them to support Jim Jordan for Speaker. Let's unify,
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Speaker 1: Let's fight, Let's win. Let please repost call in Rally
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Speaker 1: for America was what it said. And this came from
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Speaker 1: the Tea Party Action Patriot Actions. Contact represent your representative's
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Speaker 1: office and ask them if they'll support Jim Jordan for Speaker.
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Speaker 1: If yes, say thanks, emphasizing that you are a constituent.
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Speaker 1: If not, tell them that Jim Jordan had received endorsements
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Speaker 1: from McCarthy, McClintock, and Mike Rodgers highlight his leadership and
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Speaker 1: grassroots support. Urged them to vote for Jordan and request
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Speaker 1: to follow up once they commit to it, so you
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Speaker 1: can thank them for their support. This was smart, grassroots
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Speaker 1: focused from the Tea Party, patriots and others making sure
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Speaker 1: that this actually happened now. All day long on Monday,
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Speaker 1: we started to see more and more and more grassroots
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Speaker 1: activists that were coming forward who were saying, get on board,
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Speaker 1: get on board, get on board. We could see people
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Speaker 1: that were clearly making these phone calls. It was amazing
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Speaker 1: to watch and to witness this take place in real time.
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Speaker 1: It was so important that we got this done. Like
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Speaker 1: I said, in real time, vitally important. And look, we're
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Speaker 1: not out of the woods yet. I don't want to
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Speaker 1: make that clear, but what I will say is this,
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Speaker 1: we are on our way. We are on our way
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Speaker 1: to getting this done. We are on our way to
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Speaker 1: making sure that this happens. We are on our way
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Speaker 1: to having a really really productive speakership. That's where we are.
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Speaker 1: We're moving in the right direction. Can this get screwed up?
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Speaker 1: Of course it can. How do I know that it
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Speaker 1: can get screwed up? Because we are Republicans and we
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Speaker 1: seem to screw up the basic things in life. So
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Speaker 1: do I think that there's a very good chance that
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Speaker 1: Jim Jordan will be the next speaker? I do? Do
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Speaker 1: I think it can happen by the end of the
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Speaker 1: day Tuesday? Yes? Now does that mean don't call your congressman.
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Speaker 1: You need to call your congressman. You need to keep
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Speaker 1: the pressure on until the final tally is done. There
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Speaker 1: are always bad actors behind the scene. There are always
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Speaker 1: special interest groups behind the scene, behind the scenes who
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Speaker 1: are working against the best interests of us as conservatives.
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Speaker 1: Make no mistake, they will do everything they can to
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Speaker 1: try to make sure that this doesn't happen, to try
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Speaker 1: to make sure that somehow this gets screwed up. That's
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Speaker 1: what you need to understand. So call your congressman, call
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Speaker 1: your senator, and do whatever you have to do to
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Speaker 1: make sure they know where you stand. If the phone
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Speaker 1: line is busy, keep calling. If the phone line isn't working,
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Speaker 1: keep calling until you get a human being. That number,
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Speaker 1: just so you know, is an easy number. Uh two
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Speaker 1: O two two two four three one two one. All right,
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Speaker 1: that's the capital switchboard. Then you ask for your congressman
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Speaker 1: two zero two two two four three one two one
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Speaker 1: and get in the game and tell them today that
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Speaker 1: you want Jim Jordan to be this speaker.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: I want to move now to what's happening in the
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Speaker 1: Middle East, and this Israel Hamas war. The Hamas spokesman
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Speaker 1: says the group has quote no plans to release hostages.
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Speaker 1: Mediators are pressing for an agreement that will allow AID
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Speaker 1: to enter the Gaza strip and refugees with foreign passports released.
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Speaker 1: The efforts come as the World Health Organization is warning
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Speaker 1: the Gaza faces an imminent public health crisis as Palasinians
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Speaker 1: struggled to find safe passage, health care and clean, reliable water.
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Speaker 1: A spokesman person for Hamas remained unrepentant for his group's
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Speaker 1: attack on Israel. Israel says it will not stop its
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Speaker 1: attack until it has destroyed all of Hamas, saying, quote,
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Speaker 1: every Hamas member is a dead man. That's the Prime
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Speaker 1: Minister Benjamin Netnah, who said clearly last week more than
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Speaker 1: one thousand, four hundred Israelis have been killed, the vast
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Speaker 1: majority of the number during the unprecedented Hamas attack on
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Speaker 1: October the seventh that included the taking of almost two
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Speaker 1: hundred hostages. Since then, Israel has killed more than twenty
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Speaker 1: eight hundred people in the Gaza Strip, according to the
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Speaker 1: Ministry of Health and Gaza, which added another nine thy
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Speaker 1: seven hundred in Gaza that had been wounded. The group's
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Speaker 1: surprise attack targeted a music festival, where militants killed more
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Speaker 1: than two hundred people and sent young people fleeing into
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Speaker 1: bomb shelters. Once they were in those shelters, they actually
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Speaker 1: threw grenades and burned them alive. Then they took them,
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Speaker 1: burned them alive, put tires around them, burned them live,
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Speaker 1: beheaded infant children. Hamas says, quote unquote, this is a
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Speaker 1: fake story. It's a fake story, one hundred percent, is
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Speaker 1: what the Hamas spokesman said. Hamad spoke to NPR for
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Speaker 1: Morning Edition from inside Gaza. He didn't disclose, of course,
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Speaker 1: his specific location of that attack which started this latest conflict.
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Speaker 1: The Hamas spokesman said, quote, we want to get the
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Speaker 1: attention of the world. We are under oppression and torture
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Speaker 1: and collective punishment all the time. That's our message to
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Speaker 1: the world. He said. The Israeli military says Hamas is
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Speaker 1: responsible for the humanitarian consequences of the violence and chaos
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Speaker 1: that followed last week's attack, and they're right by the way.
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Speaker 1: As for the hostages taken by Hamas, the spokesman Hamad
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Speaker 1: claimed they were providing the nearly two hundred people with
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Speaker 1: shelter and protection, even though videos have come out of
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Speaker 1: those people being murdered, raped and beheaded. Those hostages including
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Speaker 1: some military personnel, children, and even a Holocaust survivor and
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Speaker 1: a blind woman in a wheelchair. Israeli military spokesman said
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Speaker 1: early this morning that a briefing during a briefing on
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Speaker 1: x the platform formerly known as Twitter, said that those
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Speaker 1: hostages include some of the most handicapped individuals, and yet
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Speaker 1: they are refusing to allow them to leave. Hamad said
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Speaker 1: Hamas would not release hostages, but it is a war. No.
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Speaker 1: Our priority now is to stop aggression and death on Gaza.
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Speaker 1: They should have thought about that before they went in
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Speaker 1: innocently killing all these people. Hamas said they were more
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Speaker 1: concerned with Palestinian civilians than the hostages. I believe them.
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Speaker 1: Gaza's two point three million residents are struggling as Israel
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Speaker 1: shut off the supply of food and power to Gaza's
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Speaker 1: main electricity grid days ago. Hospitals are struggling to care
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Speaker 1: for thousands of injured people as fuel for generators is
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Speaker 1: running out. After meeting meetings with Israeli FI officials, the
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Speaker 1: Secretary of State Anthony blink And announced the US and
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Speaker 1: Israel had agreed to develop a plan to get aid
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Speaker 1: from donor nations and multilateral organizations to the besieged Gaza Strip.
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Speaker 1: Quote is critical that aid be again flowing into Gaza
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Speaker 1: as soon as possible, Blinken said at the US Embassy
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Speaker 1: in Tel Aviv. There are also discussions to possibly establish
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Speaker 1: areas to help keep civilian safe. In the wake of
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Speaker 1: Israel's October the thirteenth order to evacuate the northern part
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Speaker 1: of the Gaza Strip, the number of internally displaced people
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Speaker 1: reach one million on Monday, the United Nations claims. They
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Speaker 1: said that around five hundred thousand Israelis have also been
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Speaker 1: displaced in this in south of Israel due to the
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Speaker 1: hostilities there from Hamas. Hamas spokesman said the organization has
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Speaker 1: asked quote are people to stay there in order to
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Speaker 1: stand against the Israeli evacuation. Yet there is proof that
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Speaker 1: Hamas is actually doing the oppice of that, forcing people
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Speaker 1: to stay that in their homes that actually want to leave,
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Speaker 1: using them as human shields, not caring that Palestinians will
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Speaker 1: die in the invasion and are being told to leave,
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Speaker 1: They're not letting them leave. I think it's pretty damn
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Speaker 1: clear who the evil people are in this story. And
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Speaker 1: yet we have a President of the United States of
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Speaker 1: America who is still out there saying it's a big
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Speaker 1: mistake for Israel to quote unquote occupy Gaza in his
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Speaker 1: sixty minutes interview. Listen carefully, so.
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Speaker 2: You do not agree with the Israeli total siege of
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Speaker 2: the Gaza strip. I'm confident that Israel is going to
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Speaker 2: act under the measure the rules of war. There's a
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Speaker 2: standards that democratic institutions and countries will go go by,
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Speaker 2: and so I'm confident that there's going to be an
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Speaker 2: ability for the innocence in Gaza to be able to
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Speaker 2: have access to medicine and food and water. Would you
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Speaker 2: support Israeli occupation of Gaza at this point, I think
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Speaker 2: it'd be a big mistake. Look what happened in Gaza.
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Speaker 2: In my view, is Hamas and the extreme elements of
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Speaker 2: Moss don't represent all the Palestinian people. And I think
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Speaker 2: that it would be a mistake to pre Israel to
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Speaker 2: occupy Gaza gain but to going in and taking out
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Speaker 2: the extremists, the hesbala Is up north, but Hamas down
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Speaker 2: south is a necessary requirement. Do you believe that Hamas
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Speaker 2: must be eliminated entirely? Yes, I do. But there needs
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Speaker 2: to be a Palestinian authority, There needs to be a
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Speaker 2: path to a Palestine in state.
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Speaker 1: That's your President of the United States of America doing
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Speaker 1: everything can to undermine what Israel is trying to accomplish. Yes,
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Speaker 1: we need to get rid of a Moss but yes,
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Speaker 1: but yes, but there's one word this president seems to
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Speaker 1: love a lot. It's that word.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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