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Autopen Authority in Question plus Experts Slam Leaked Report Sparking Firestorm · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Good Saturday morning to you. Ben Ferguson with you, and
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  Speaker 1: these are some of the stories that you may have
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  Speaker 1: missed that we talked about this week on the forty
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  Speaker 1: seven Morning Update. First up, in shocking testimony before Congress
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  Speaker 1: that the media is not reporting on a former Biden
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  Speaker 1: ade says quote she does not know who ordered President
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  Speaker 1: Biden's auto pen signatures. We'll give you the details on
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  Speaker 1: what all she said to Congress and why this story
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  Speaker 1: is being hidden from you. And also another major story,
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  Speaker 1: at least five more Iranian nationals who were in the
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  Speaker 1: country illegally with additional criminal backgrounds have been arrested by
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  Speaker 1: Ice in recent days, bring the number now to almost
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  Speaker 1: twenty individuals who have been arrested. Some of them would
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  Speaker 1: direct ties to terrorism and Iran. And finally, a former
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  Speaker 1: Biden official has now come out on TV saying that
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  Speaker 1: Iran's nuclear program was in fact set back significantly, again
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  Speaker 1: the complete opposite of what the media has been trying
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  Speaker 1: to sell you on. We have the receipts and we'll
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  Speaker 1: play it for you. It's a forty seven Morning Update
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  Speaker 1: and it starts right now. Story number one, There is
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  Speaker 1: a very important story that is getting virtually no coverage
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  Speaker 1: right now, so I hope all of you will share
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  Speaker 1: this information wherever you can. And that is the shocking
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  Speaker 1: at mission by a former Biden aid announcing that she
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  Speaker 1: does not know who ordered President Biden's auto pin signatures.
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  Speaker 1: Nira Tendon, a former Top eight president Joe Biden, told
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  Speaker 1: Congress under oath that she had authorized to direct auto
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  Speaker 1: pen signatures for the president but does not know who
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  Speaker 1: gave the final order. Tendon served as the director of
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  Speaker 1: Biden's domestic Policy counsel, and she told Congress during testimony
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  Speaker 1: that the president used an automatic signature tool allowing for
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  Speaker 1: aids to sign pardons, sign memos, and other official documents
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  Speaker 1: in the White House. Tanam said she did not know
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  Speaker 1: who authorized any of those signatures. During her interview before Congress,
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  Speaker 1: which lasted more than five hours, she told lawmakers that
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  Speaker 1: in her role as staff secretary and senior adviser to
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  Speaker 1: the former president between twenty twenty one and twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: that she was authorized to direct auto pen signatures on
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  Speaker 1: behalf of Biden. An Oversight Committee official has confirmed this
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  Speaker 1: now to Fox News. Tennen, who reportedly said during her
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  Speaker 1: testimony that she had quote limited interactions with Biden in
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  Speaker 1: her role, even though she was a senior that, according
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  Speaker 1: to sources familiar with her testimony, described an approval process
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  Speaker 1: that left her at least partly in the dark about
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  Speaker 1: who specifically was giving final approval on the decisions to
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  Speaker 1: use the automatic signature tool, even though she'd simultaneously insisted
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  Speaker 1: quote Biden was in charge. Tendon reportedly testified that to
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  Speaker 1: get approval for the use of autopen signatures, she would
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  Speaker 1: send decision memos to members of Biden's inner circle. Now
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  Speaker 1: remember these are people elected by no one. She added
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  Speaker 1: that she was not aware of what actions or what
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  Speaker 1: approvals took place between the times she sent the decision
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  Speaker 1: memo and the time she received it back with the
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  Speaker 1: necessary approval. According to sources familiar with what happened in
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  Speaker 1: this testimony, a minority member of the Oversight committee called
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  Speaker 1: Tandem's characterization quote a lie, with a statement from a
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  Speaker 1: former White House staffer saying that they received quote a
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  Speaker 1: written sign off from Biden on every executive action she
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  Speaker 1: presented with him. The only problem is she's under oath
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  Speaker 1: and saying that's not how it went down at all.
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  Speaker 1: Any other characterization is a distortion of the testimony the
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  Speaker 1: Biden former Biden officials stated quote to insinuate that Nira
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  Speaker 1: Tanem said President Biden did not approve every single presidential
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  Speaker 1: decision and sign off on every executive action coming out
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  Speaker 1: of the White House is a lie. Well, she's saying
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  Speaker 1: that it's the truth. Tenem's attorney agreed with the staffer,
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  Speaker 1: adding that the auto pens were used after Biden approved
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  Speaker 1: the decisions, saying this in a cleanup statement, the auto
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  Speaker 1: pen was used only after President Biden personally approved the decision.
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  Speaker 1: Aids at no time signed these documents on President Biden's behalf. Again,
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  Speaker 1: that's not what her testimony was under oath. So just
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  Speaker 1: know this is the big story that we should be
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  Speaker 1: talking about, and also know that the media will not
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  Speaker 1: touch the fact that a former Biden aid does not
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  Speaker 1: know this is her testimony, who ordered the present auto
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  Speaker 1: pen signatures. Next story number two, at least five more
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  Speaker 1: Iranian nationals who are in this country illegally now off
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  Speaker 1: the streets as real threats to our national security. This
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  Speaker 1: coming after eleven we're arrested over the weekend, and this
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  Speaker 1: is a real problem now as we're talking about Iranian
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  Speaker 1: sleeper cells being a threat to this country. More Iranians
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  Speaker 1: with major criminal histories being arrested and targeted by ICE,
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  Speaker 1: and what the White House is referring to is a
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  Speaker 1: major security sweep, saying these are the worst of the
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  Speaker 1: worst among US. Now officials are touting this as a
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  Speaker 1: full throttle go after anyone they can who is in
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  Speaker 1: this country that may be a known or suspected terrorists
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  Speaker 1: and have direct connections to Iran. That is what they're
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  Speaker 1: trying to do. I want you to hear more about
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  Speaker 1: what's happening in a report from Fox.
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  Speaker 4: Concern about our safety here at home in the wake
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  Speaker 4: of the strikes on Iran's nuclear sites. Breaking news today,
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  Speaker 4: Immigration and Customs agents announced they have arrested fifteen illegal
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  Speaker 4: Iranian immigrants since Sunday. One of them admitted to ties
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  Speaker 4: to Hesbelah in Lebanon. A law enforcement source told Fox
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  Speaker 4: News the FBI is closely watching for any Iranian back
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  Speaker 4: sleeper agents. In the wake of Operation Midnight Hammer. During
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  Speaker 4: the Biden administration, border agents arrested more than one thousand,
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  Speaker 4: five hundred Iranians who entered illegally at our southern border.
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  Speaker 4: They let nearly half of them go President Trump on
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  Speaker 4: that this morning.
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  Speaker 5: Biden let a lot of supercellsen Biden was an incompetent president,
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  Speaker 5: had no idea what he was doing. He let a
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  Speaker 5: lot of supercells in many from Iran. But hopefully we'll
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  Speaker 5: take care of them. What Biden did to this country
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  Speaker 5: should never be forgotten.
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  Speaker 4: Justice correspondent David Spunt is in Washington.
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  Speaker 6: David well Harris the news about the fifteen Iranian nationals
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  Speaker 6: coming illegally into the US as no surprise to the
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  Speaker 6: people at the Justice Department, the FBI, and of course
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  Speaker 6: the Department of Homeland Security. According to authorities, one of
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  Speaker 6: them has ties to Hezbolla. Another is an alleged former
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  Speaker 6: sniper for the Iranian Army. At a budget hearing yesterday,
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  Speaker 6: Attorney General Pam Bondi said the number of Iranians illegally
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  Speaker 6: in the United States continues to grow as well.
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  Speaker 4: Over one thousand have entered our country, and I can
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  Speaker 4: tell you we are on high alert and everyone is
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  Speaker 4: looking at that.
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  Speaker 1: Very closely now.
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  Speaker 6: She says, budget cuts won affect the overall mission. DOJ
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  Speaker 6: and the FBI continue to focus on threats toward President
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  Speaker 6: Trump himself as a result of his ordering of the
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  Speaker 6: killing of this man, General Kasim Solomani in January twenty
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  Speaker 6: twenty assassination plots originating in Iran not only toward President Trump,
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  Speaker 6: but to US residents who once lived in Iran. DHS
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  Speaker 6: Secretary of Christy Nome seen there yesterday, was asked about
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  Speaker 6: sleeper cells in the United States. Those are groups of
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  Speaker 6: people who live among us in the US quietly until
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  Speaker 6: order to act.
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  Speaker 4: We've seen some from overseas, and some that have been here,
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  Speaker 4: maybe gone overseas for short period of time, become radicalized
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  Speaker 4: and come back, or individuals that are right here in
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  Speaker 4: the United States.
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  Speaker 6: Nom held a conference call with some of the nation's
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  Speaker 6: governors over the weekend of pledge federal resources to help
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  Speaker 6: on the state level to combat any threats, whether federal
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  Speaker 6: or local. Attorney General Bondi back in front of lawmakers
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  Speaker 6: tomorrow to talk about the DOJ budget. But you could
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  Speaker 6: expect some of these topics also will likely come up
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  Speaker 6: if you.
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  Speaker 1: Go back to the list of the individuals that have
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  Speaker 1: been arrested and what they've been arrested for. One of
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  Speaker 1: the ones I mentioned earlier was out of Atlanta, an
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  Speaker 1: individual that was arrested in Alabama, and this was a
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  Speaker 1: guy that served as an Iranian Army sniper. Now he
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  Speaker 1: didn't serve as an Iranian army sniper like twenty years ago.
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  Speaker 1: The individual served as an Iranian Army sniper from twenty
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  Speaker 1: eighteen to twenty twenty one. And at the time of
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  Speaker 1: his arrests in America, he was in possession. He had
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  Speaker 1: an Islamic Republic Army identification card on his person. You
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  Speaker 1: don't want to be involved in that. Why would you
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  Speaker 1: have it on your person. You go to another example
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  Speaker 1: ice in Houston. They arrested another Iranian there. When they
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  Speaker 1: arrested him, he was carrying a loaded nine millimeter pistol.
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  Speaker 1: They arrested him by the way in seventeen in Harris County,
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  Speaker 1: that is Houston, Texas. The police arrested him for assaulting
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  Speaker 1: a family member and impeding breathing, meaning you're strangling someone.
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  Speaker 1: You also go to another person in Houston, another Iranian national.
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  Speaker 1: An immigration judge had ordered him removed nearly twenty years
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  Speaker 1: ago on August fourth of two thousand and five. He's
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  Speaker 1: been twice convicted of drug crimes and one's convicted driving
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  Speaker 1: on a suspended license. He's still in America. There's problems here.
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  Speaker 1: There's another example of this. A man in Arizona arrested
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  Speaker 1: again another Iranian. He had a final order of removal.
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  Speaker 1: He was convicted of threatening a law enforcement officer and
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  Speaker 1: being an alien in possession of a firearm. So these
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  Speaker 1: are as the president would describe it bt ownbrace right.
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  Speaker 1: You have officials that arrested another man that was in
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  Speaker 1: the country illegally from Iran. The man threatened to open
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  Speaker 1: fire on ice officials if they entered her home, and
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  Speaker 1: then she would go outside and shoot ICE officers in
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  Speaker 1: the head quote unquote. So it's not just men, it's
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  Speaker 1: also women. You had another twenty two year old in Mississippi,
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  Speaker 1: an Iranian national and former lawful permanent resident. Well, guess
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  Speaker 1: what he lied on his original visa application and committed
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  Speaker 1: potential marriage fraud as well. This is a guy who
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  Speaker 1: quote is listed as a known or suspected terrorists. He's
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  Speaker 1: now in ice custody, pinning removal. You have another man
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  Speaker 1: in Colorado, an individual after a judge had already ordered
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  Speaker 1: him to be removed. His criminal history include state and
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  Speaker 1: federal convictions for drug crimes and arrests for assault and
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  Speaker 1: child abuse. No big deal, right, totally fine. You got
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  Speaker 1: a man in Saint Paul, a man that was fifty
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  Speaker 1: six year old Iranian national. He's been convicted of being
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  Speaker 1: a felon in possession of a firearm in Minneapolis. He
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  Speaker 1: was sentenced to fifteen months in prison. He's also a
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  Speaker 1: former member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard with admitted connections
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  Speaker 1: directly to Hezballah. You got another guy in San Francisco,
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  Speaker 1: sixty two year old Iranian national with a criminal history
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  Speaker 1: that includes a conviction for petty theft and a conviction
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  Speaker 1: of possession of a controlled substance for sale. He was
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  Speaker 1: sent to ten years in state prison for drug conviction
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  Speaker 1: and now he's in ice custody. Or go to Buffalo.
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  Speaker 1: You've got another Iranian national there, a man convicted of
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  Speaker 1: grand larceny, schemes to defraud, criminal impersonation, and practicing as
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  Speaker 1: an attorney. Another example of the people that they're taking
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  Speaker 1: off the streets. So when you look at what we
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  Speaker 1: are now witnessing, it is very clear that there are
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  Speaker 1: real people in this country that are trying to do
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  Speaker 1: harm to this country that were let in under the
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  Speaker 1: last administration. That is obvious. The last administration knew that
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  Speaker 1: these people were coming into this country, and they just
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  Speaker 1: didn't care. They wanted to flood the country with as
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  Speaker 1: many illegal immigrants as they possibly could, and they just
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  Speaker 1: didn't care who was coming in, how they were getting
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  Speaker 1: in this country. It didn't matter. And that's incredibly sad.
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  Speaker 1: Let me also say one other final thing here. I
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  Speaker 1: expect this to get worse before it gets better, with
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  Speaker 1: a number of illegal immigrants that we're going to find
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  Speaker 1: that are a real threat to our national security, and
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  Speaker 1: we should do everything we can to support and advocate
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  Speaker 1: for Ice and this administration to find them wherever they
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  Speaker 1: have to in the country. And here is story number three.
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  Speaker 7: There is a new classified report that is suggesting that
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  Speaker 7: Iran's nuclear program, still intact, likely relied on faulty info
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  Speaker 7: Iranian propaganda from Iranian sources. This is when the media
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  Speaker 7: decided to run with the story, knowing that their propaganda
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  Speaker 7: was literally coming from Iran. The top secret defense intelligence
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  Speaker 7: agency known as the DIA assessment that claimed Iran's nuclear
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  Speaker 7: sites suffered only moderate damage likely relied on faulty information
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  Speaker 7: from deceitful Iranian sources that according to several former US
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  Speaker 7: intelligence officers, one of whom described the documents as so
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  Speaker 7: unreliable you can wipe your abass with it. The classified
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  Speaker 7: DIA report ignited a media firestorm in the days after
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  Speaker 7: President Donald Trump authorized those precision strikes on Iran's top
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  Speaker 7: three nuclear sites. The findings, of course, werein the league
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  Speaker 7: to CNN and The New York Times, which you heard
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  Speaker 7: about a moment ago. Then they presented them as facts,
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  Speaker 7: as bombshell evidence that the US bombing run only set
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  Speaker 7: back Tehran's nuclear ambitions by you know, a couple of months.
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  Speaker 7: The US intelligence community deemed that initial assessment with quote
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  Speaker 7: low confidence, a fact CNN purposely admitted from its original
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  Speaker 7: story and based solely on satellite imagery and intercepted communications
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  Speaker 7: known as signal intelligence from Iranian officials. Again, think about this.
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  Speaker 7: You have the Iranian government putting out propaganda and media
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  Speaker 7: companies in this country putting it out there as fact.
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  Speaker 7: Shortly after the assessment leaked, Axios reported that communications intercepted
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  Speaker 7: by Israel suggested that Iran's military officials have been giving
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  Speaker 7: false situation reports to the country's political leadership, downplaying the
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  Speaker 7: extent of the damage. Such communications likely made their way
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  Speaker 7: into the da report. According to three former US intelligence operatives,
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  Speaker 7: including a current US official and other veteran national security
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  Speaker 7: inside who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon both on
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  Speaker 7: and off the record, some of them referred to the
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  Speaker 7: DIA as the discount intelligence agency. It's basically messaging by
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  Speaker 7: the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, messaging by Tehran. That is what
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  Speaker 7: a former intelligence officer with the US Central Command who
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  Speaker 7: operated in the Middle East for nearly thirty years set.
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  Speaker 7: In fact, CNN actually had to report on this, and
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  Speaker 7: here's what it sounded like when a former Biden official
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  Speaker 7: had this to say about Iran's nuclear program.
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  Speaker 8: Oxtein, a longtime diplomat who served as President Biden's senior
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  Speaker 8: advisor for Energy and Investment. And I think one question
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  Speaker 8: that regular people will have, you know, listening to what
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  Speaker 8: came out of that briefing today on Capitol Hill from
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  Speaker 8: Republicans from Democrats, is what should they take away when
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  Speaker 8: there is such a divide between the politicians over what
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  Speaker 8: is the fate of Iran's nuclear capacity and where that
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  Speaker 8: stands tonight?
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  Speaker 6: What do you think?
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  Speaker 9: Well, first, Kaylen, it's good to be with you. Look,
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  Speaker 9: I think the most important thing is to separate out
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  Speaker 9: what's politics and what is happening on the ground over
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  Speaker 9: the last year year and a quarter. Last April, Iran
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  Speaker 9: launched a missile attack against Israel, which was one hundred
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  Speaker 9: ballistic missiles company by two hundred or so UAVs. The
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  Speaker 9: United States military coordinated or response and defeated that attack.
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  Speaker 9: But that was really the first time that Iran had
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  Speaker 9: used its own territory to attack Israel. They did it
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  Speaker 9: again in October, and again the United States supported Israel
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  Speaker 9: and with regional partners as well as European countries to
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  Speaker 9: defeat it. And now since then, Iran has lost most
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  Speaker 9: of its deterrence power. They had three things going for them.
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  Speaker 9: They had proxies meeting terrorist organizations in Lebanon, in Syria
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  Speaker 9: and Iraq and Yemen that supported them. The second was
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  Speaker 9: the missiles, and the third was the thread of a
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  Speaker 9: nuclear weaponization. Of their nuclear capabilities, most of their proxies
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  Speaker 9: are either weakened to the point they can't respond or
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  Speaker 9: are choosing now to themselves from Iran. Their missile capability
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  Speaker 9: has been proven to be less effective because of the
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  Speaker 9: United States ability to defend the region, and now their
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  Speaker 9: nuclear capability is likely at least set back. Now the
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  Speaker 9: whole idea of obliterated or destroyed, these are political terms
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  Speaker 9: that are not really relevant, and I would urge Americans
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  Speaker 9: not to really pay attention to those words. What we
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  Speaker 9: do know, we know that as a result of the
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  Speaker 9: both the Israeli the American strikes, the nuclear program was
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  Speaker 9: set back significantly. How much we don't really know. Most
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  Speaker 9: Israeli military analysts and generals that I've spoken to over
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  Speaker 9: the last twenty four to forty eight hours, I think
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  Speaker 9: this has gone from a six months breakout to timeframe
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  Speaker 9: to two years, so an eighteen month or two year
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  Speaker 9: delay in their program. But here's the thing. They have
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  Speaker 9: also lost other capabilities. They've lost their command and control,
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  Speaker 9: they've lost military leaders, they've lost scientists, and they lost
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  Speaker 9: their conversion So they're clearly weakened. And lastly, Israel has
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  Speaker 9: proven that they have an intelligence givability inside Iran that
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  Speaker 9: if they try to reconstitute we'll we the United States, Israel,
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  Speaker 9: other European allies will know about it.
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  Speaker 7: Yet again, more proof of the propaganda coming from the
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  Speaker 7: media trying to convince you that somehow one of the
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  Speaker 7: most successful missions in modern military history was a failure
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  Speaker 7: all because Donald Trump is the one that's said to
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  Speaker 7: do it.
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