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DEMS Let 18K Terrorists into America plus Trump Leads on AI & Moving to Designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a Terrorist Organization · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome it as Verdict with Center, Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson
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  Speaker 1: talk about in this show, including something that we were
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  Speaker 1: worried about and have been talking about for years, and
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  Speaker 1: that was the number of terrorists that we were afraid
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  Speaker 1: were being let into this country with our wide open
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  Speaker 1: southern border under the Biden administration. The number that we're
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  Speaker 1: now being warned about is one that I even would
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  Speaker 1: not have guessed worst case scenario. And now the Trump
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  Speaker 1: officials are saying there are a lot of known and
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  Speaker 1: suspected terrorists in the US.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's exactly right. The Trump administration testified before Congress
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  Speaker 2: that eighteen thousand known and suspected terrorists are in the
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  Speaker 2: United States because Joe Biden the Democrats let them in.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to break that down. The threat that poses
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  Speaker 2: to national security, the threat that poses to our families.
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  Speaker 2: We're also going to talk about an order and executive
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  Speaker 2: order that the President issued today. He issued an order
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  Speaker 2: protecting AI, ensuring that America wins the race for AI
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  Speaker 2: and beats China. We're going to break that down for
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  Speaker 2: you as well. And finally, we're going to talk about
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  Speaker 2: legislation that I have in the Senate to designate the
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  Speaker 2: Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. I think it is
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  Speaker 2: incredibly important. President Trump has led on this, and there
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  Speaker 2: was a battle in the House of Representatives where unfortunately
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  Speaker 2: they gutted the legislation. We need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood.
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  Speaker 1: And again it is a headline that when I saw
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  Speaker 1: it earlier day, I actually was terrified because Trump officials
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  Speaker 1: are warning eighteen thousand, not eighteen hundred, eighteen thousand known
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  Speaker 1: and suspected terrorists or in the US, they're blaming Joe
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  Speaker 1: Biden also for the attack on the National Guard, and
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  Speaker 1: this is their warning of just how bad it actually is.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly right. This is dangerous. So here's what the
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  Speaker 2: New York Post has reported. Quote as many as eighteen
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  Speaker 2: thousand terrorists entered the US during the Biden administration. National
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  Speaker 2: counter Terrorism Center Director Joe Kent revealed during a House
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  Speaker 2: committee hearing on Thursday. So far, NCTC has identified around
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  Speaker 2: eighteen thousand known and suspected terrorists that the Biden administration
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  Speaker 2: let come into our country. Can't testified before the House
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  Speaker 2: Homeland Security Committee. These are individuals who, under normal circumstances,
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  Speaker 2: would never be allowed to enter our country because of
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  Speaker 2: their ties to Jahati groups like ISIS and al Qaeda.
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  Speaker 2: He said, Yet the Biden administration not only let them
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  Speaker 2: into our country and in many cases facilitate their entry
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  Speaker 2: into the country, just like the entry of the Afghan
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  Speaker 2: terrorists who committed the terrorist attack here just before Thanksgiving,
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  Speaker 2: killing one of our National Guards member and wounding another.
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  Speaker 2: The FBI foiled other ISIS terrorist attack in Michigan and
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  Speaker 2: New Jersey earlier this year. A self described MAAS operative
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  Speaker 2: also infiltrated the ranks of the US Air Force in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, and later planned to carry out a
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  Speaker 2: pipe bomb attack with two others before he was thwarted.
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  Speaker 2: In April, before Trump took office, a suspected ISIS terrorist
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  Speaker 2: mowed down and shot New Year's revelers on Bourbon Street
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  Speaker 2: in New Orleans, killing fourteen people. Kent pointed out in
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  Speaker 2: the House Hearing that the accused National Guard shooter, Ramanala Lachanwal,
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  Speaker 2: was just one of eighty eight thousand Afghans, and its
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  Speaker 2: counter Terrorism Office has since identified two thousand of that
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  Speaker 2: group of the eighty eight thousand who have eyes to
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  Speaker 2: terrorist organizations. Another Afghan national was arrested and charged this
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  Speaker 2: month for threatening to carry out a suicide bombing before Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 2: While a third was collared in Virginia on December third
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  Speaker 2: for providing weapons to his father, an ISIS K commander.
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  Speaker 2: The Post first reported a fourth was led into the
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  Speaker 2: US by the Biden administration and later scheme to carry
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  Speaker 2: out an ISIS inspired Election Day terror attack last year.
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  Speaker 2: All five, including Lackhunwal, entered the country as part of
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  Speaker 2: the eighty eight thousand that received expedited vetting to settle
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  Speaker 2: in the US under President Joe Biden's Operations Allies Welcome program.
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  Speaker 2: An official from the Office of the Director of National
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  Speaker 2: Intelligence told the Post that hundreds of other ISIS affiliated
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  Speaker 2: migrants are roaming the country, including four thousand from a
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  Speaker 2: Central Asian smuggling network and six hundred Tajiks and Uzbeks.
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  Speaker 2: The NCTC has also identified hundreds of MS thirteen trender
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  Speaker 2: Aragua and Cinelota cartel members and notified immigration and customs
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  Speaker 2: enforcement to prioritize their arrests and deportations. The official added. Stunningly,
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  Speaker 2: Kent claim in the hearing that the remaining sixteen thousand
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  Speaker 2: with terror ties who didn't originate from Afghanistan doesn't even
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  Speaker 2: include migrants who came here illegally through the open border.
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  Speaker 2: The Trump administration recently warned Americans that the US was
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  Speaker 2: at quote heightened risk of terrorist attacks. Kent said, noting
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  Speaker 2: risks from quote terrorists pretty much of all stripes, but
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  Speaker 2: in particular from ISIS and from al Qaeda. This is
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  Speaker 2: dangerous and this is what unfolded the last four years
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  Speaker 2: of the Biden administration.
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  Speaker 1: Centaer, I want to play for you the NCTC Director
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  Speaker 1: Joe Kent and what he had to say about this.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 3: We've made significant progress under President Trump's leadership. We have
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  Speaker 3: the jihads of ISIS and al Qaeda on the run
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  Speaker 3: in Iraq and Syria thanks to the decisive action and
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  Speaker 3: the strikes that we've taken there recently since President Trump
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  Speaker 3: took office in January. However, we have a persistent threat
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  Speaker 3: from the individuals that were allowed into this country by
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  Speaker 3: the previous administration. The number one threat that we have
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  Speaker 3: right now, in my view, is the fact that we
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  Speaker 3: don't know who came into our country in the last
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  Speaker 3: four years of Biden's open borders. What we have identified
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  Speaker 3: is alarming, and I want to share that with you today.
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  Speaker 3: We just recently put out a warning warning of the
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  Speaker 3: heightened risk of terrorist attacks posed to the homeland by
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  Speaker 3: terrorists pretty much of all stripes, but in particular from
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  Speaker 3: ISIS and from al Qaeda.
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  Speaker 1: Well let's just pause there and we'll play the second
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  Speaker 1: part in a moment. But sentater your reaction to there
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  Speaker 1: has now been put out a warning for a ISIS
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  Speaker 1: al Qaeda type attack in the US. Know why the
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  Speaker 1: national news is not covering this that they're saying, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we have a height in the work. This is saying
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  Speaker 1: we're very concerned about this is now being said, and
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  Speaker 1: I still haven't seen this on the news anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the massive national security threat we face. Over four
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  Speaker 2: years of the Biden Harris administration, we saw over twelve
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  Speaker 2: million people coming to this country illegally, a massive invasion.
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  Speaker 2: It is the highest rate of illegal immigration in our
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  Speaker 2: nation's history. We also saw more than two million god aways.
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  Speaker 2: Now why did god aways matter? God Aways are the
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  Speaker 2: people that did not turn themselves in. Of the twelve million,
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  Speaker 2: roughly ten million of them, when they came across they
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  Speaker 2: went and looked for border patrol. They turned themselves in.
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  Speaker 2: The god aways are much much more likely to be criminals,
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  Speaker 2: to be murderers, to be rapists, to be child molesters,
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  Speaker 2: to be gang members, to be terrorists. That two million
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  Speaker 2: that are god Aways is the most concerning population that's
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  Speaker 2: coming into this country. By the way, Biden and the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats did not care at all. They did not go
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  Speaker 2: after the Godaways. They literally imported two million potential criminals
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  Speaker 2: into this country. Now there's a smaller subset of those
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  Speaker 2: who we have evidence they are likely terrorists. The Trump
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  Speaker 2: administration is now telling us that is eighteen thousand people
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  Speaker 2: who we believe are likely terrorists. That is dangerous and
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  Speaker 2: it really underscores the urgency with which the Trump administration
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  Speaker 2: is going after and arresting and incarcerating and deporting those
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  Speaker 2: who are terrorists, those who are murderers, those who are rapists,
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  Speaker 2: those who are child molesters, those who are gangbanriors. That
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  Speaker 2: if you want to protect our families, if you want
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  Speaker 2: to protect our kids, that is massively, massively and important,
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  Speaker 2: and it actually explains why the Democrats in the media
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  Speaker 2: are losing their mind because they don't want these criminals arrested.
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  Speaker 2: This is front and center a massive issue for the country.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's more of what the NCTC director Joe
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  Speaker 1: Kent was saying in the second part of his warning,
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  Speaker 1: take a listen for everybody out there, and again ask
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  Speaker 1: yourself this question. Why are you probably only hearing this
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  Speaker 1: audio for the very first time or even about this
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  Speaker 1: story on this show? How is this not leading the
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  Speaker 1: nightly news? Keep listening.
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  Speaker 3: NCTC has been crunching the numbers and going through the
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  Speaker 3: sheer volume of known and suspected terrorists that are in
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  Speaker 3: the country that came in under the Biden administration. So far,
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  Speaker 3: NCTC has identified around eighteen thousand known and suspected terrorists
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  Speaker 3: that the Biden administration let come into our country. These
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  Speaker 3: are individuals who, under normal circumstances would never be allowed
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  Speaker 3: to enter our country because of their ties to Jihati
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  Speaker 3: groups like ISIS and al Qaeda. Yet the Biden administration
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  Speaker 3: not only let them into the country and in many
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  Speaker 3: cases facilitated their entry into the country, just like the
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  Speaker 3: entry of the Afghan terrorists who committed the terrorist attack
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  Speaker 3: here just before Thanksgiving, killing one of our National Guard
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  Speaker 3: members and wounding another. That Afghan was brought into the
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  Speaker 3: country as a group of over one hundred thousand Afghans
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  Speaker 3: who were brought here during the disastrous withdraw from Afghanistan.
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  Speaker 3: These individuals, despite what has been reported, were not vetted
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  Speaker 3: properly to come into the United States. The individual terrorists
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  Speaker 3: who committed the attack in DC, he was vetted to
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  Speaker 3: serve as a soldier in Afghanistan. The Biden administration essentially
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  Speaker 3: used his tactical level vetting as a ruse to bring
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  Speaker 3: him here and to bring him into our communities. And
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  Speaker 3: we've seen the tragic results of that. Now that Afghan,
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  Speaker 3: that attacker, that terrorist is just one of eighty eight thousand.
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  Speaker 3: We've identified two thousand of that group of eighty eight
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  Speaker 3: thousand who have ties to terrorist organizations. We're working right now,
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  Speaker 3: hand in hand with DHS and with the FBI to
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  Speaker 3: run down this two thousand, the Afghans who came here
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  Speaker 3: under allies welcome who have ties to terrorist organizations, and additionally,
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  Speaker 3: the other sixteen thousand individuals or ties to terrorist organizations
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  Speaker 3: that Biden let into our country.
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  Speaker 1: This wasn't an accident, and I think that's part of
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  Speaker 1: this story center, is this was done deliberately. This wasn't
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  Speaker 1: an oversight. It was we're asleep at their wheel and
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  Speaker 1: we just didn't realize what was going on. This was
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  Speaker 1: done in a way that they knew was a problem,
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  Speaker 1: and they knew the problem was getting bigger and bigger,
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  Speaker 1: and they didn't care what happened to average Americans.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, the sheer quantity eighteen thousand known and suspected terrorists.
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  Speaker 2: It'd be one thing if the Biden administration in four
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  Speaker 2: years they let in a dozen known as suspected terrorists,
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  Speaker 2: one hundred known as suspected terrorists. That would be concerning.
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  Speaker 2: One terrorist could kill hundreds or even thousands of Americans.
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  Speaker 2: You and I would not be happy if they let
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  Speaker 2: in a dozen or one hundred, eighteen thousand, Holy cow, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean that is a massive failure of our national
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  Speaker 2: security apparatus. That is a massive failure where the Biden administration,
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats prioritized politics. Let everybody in. It doesn't matter
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  Speaker 2: where they're coming from. It doesn't matter if they're all
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  Speaker 2: kind of terrorists. It doesn't matter if they're Hesbala, it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't matter if they're Hamas, it doesn't matter if they're
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  Speaker 2: objective in coming to America is to come to DC
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  Speaker 2: and to shoot National guardsmen. Because they are radical America
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  Speaker 2: hating terrorists, we will let them in because we think
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  Speaker 2: one day they will have the right to vote, maybe immediately,
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  Speaker 2: maybe in time, and they'll vote for Democrats. And so
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  Speaker 2: if American citizens are murdered, the Democrats were willing to
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  Speaker 2: do that. Yeah, that is It's staggering and it's indefensible.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty impressive what it can do, but there also
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  Speaker 1: has to be framework around it and making sure that
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  Speaker 1: it is a way for us to use the tools
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  Speaker 1: and also keep people safe. There's a lot of concern
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  Speaker 1: with AI also when it comes to who's going to
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  Speaker 1: be leading in the industry. Is it going to be
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  Speaker 1: the United States or China? And what does AI look
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  Speaker 1: like if they're the leader, and how can they manipulate
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  Speaker 1: everything through AI center. This is something that we've talked
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  Speaker 1: about on this show a lot. I think we've led
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  Speaker 1: on this topic. It's an important one because it is
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  Speaker 1: a race I describe the other day on TV as
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  Speaker 1: this is no different than the race of the Moon
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  Speaker 1: with Russia, the race to the moon with AI and China.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever gets there first is probably going to win and
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  Speaker 1: own it. And this is a really really important subject
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  Speaker 1: right now. And it's also when I think that deals
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  Speaker 1: with national security.
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  Speaker 2: So the single most important economic battle we have in
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  Speaker 2: this country right now is the race for AI. This
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  Speaker 2: is going to transform the world. We may not like it,
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  Speaker 2: but it's going to happen. The binary choice is does
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  Speaker 2: America win or does China win. Look, whoever wins the
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  Speaker 2: race for AEI, the values of that country will define
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  Speaker 2: the characteristics of AI. If you want AI to be
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  Speaker 2: defined by the values of China, if you want it
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  Speaker 2: to be surveillance and control and propaganda and the communist
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  Speaker 2: government controlling every thing you think, then you want China
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  Speaker 2: to win. If you want it to be free speech
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  Speaker 2: and free enterprise and individual rights, then you want America
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  Speaker 2: to win. And this is you think back to the
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  Speaker 2: nineteen nineties. The battle for the Internet was a massive battle.
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  Speaker 2: America won the battle for the Internet. We prevailed. This
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  Speaker 2: battle of AI is more consequential than the battle for
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  Speaker 2: the Internet. Today, President Trump signed an executive order seeking
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  Speaker 2: to ensure a consistent national standard of rules for AI.
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  Speaker 2: Stop Gavin Newsom and HOCl and JB. Prisker and on
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  Speaker 2: all these left wing democrats in the States from putting contradictory, burdensome,
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  Speaker 2: inconsistent rules on AI that ends up crippling American AI
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  Speaker 2: and letting China win. I want you to listen to
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  Speaker 2: Presidency talked about this today.
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  Speaker 4: Well, thank you very much. We have a big signing
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  Speaker 4: right now, and we have a tremendous industry where we're
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  Speaker 4: leading by a lot. It's the AI artificial intelligence. I
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  Speaker 4: always thought it should be SI supreme intelligence, but I
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  Speaker 4: guess somewhere along the line they decided to under word
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  Speaker 4: artificial and that's okay with me. That's up to them.
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  Speaker 4: It's a massive industry. We're leading China, We're leading everybody
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  Speaker 4: by a tremendous amount. Where the electricity is being built
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  Speaker 4: by them in every plant they're building the electricity. We're
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  Speaker 4: getting them rapid approvals, but they're spending trillions of dollars
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  Speaker 4: and they can't. Basically says a couple of other things
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  Speaker 4: that are less important, but one of the things it
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  Speaker 4: has is you have to have a central source of approval.
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  Speaker 4: When they need approvals of things, they have to come
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  Speaker 4: to one source. They can't go to California, New York
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  Speaker 4: and various other places like Illinois with Pritzker, who's you know,
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  Speaker 4: a totally unreasonable person, and they have to have you know,
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  Speaker 4: they're putting all this money in. It's a big part
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  Speaker 4: of the economy and there's only going to be I
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  Speaker 4: think one winner here. I don't know if anybody agrees
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  Speaker 4: with that. I think most people agree, but there's only
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  Speaker 4: going to be one winner here, and that's probably going
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  Speaker 4: to be the US or China, and right now we're
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  Speaker 4: winning by a lot. China has a central source of approval.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think they have any approval to just go
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  Speaker 4: and built. But people want to be in the United
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  Speaker 4: States and they want to do it here, and we
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  Speaker 4: have the big investment coming. But if they had to
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: get fifty different approvals from fifty different states, you can
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: forget it because it's not possible to do especially if
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: you have some hostile All you need is one hostile
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: actor and you wouldn't be able to do it. So
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: it doesn't make sense. I didn't have to briefed on this.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: By the way, this is real easy business. I mean,
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: this is simple, so we're very happy with that. But
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: this is about something a little bit different. We want
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: to have one central source of approval, and we have
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: I think great Republican support. I think we probably have
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: Democrats support too, because it's common sense. I mean, you
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: can't go to every time you make a change, and
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: it could be a very reasonable change, you still won't
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: get it approved if you have to go to fifty states.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: So this centralizes it and it's something which the people
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: will behind me, the very distinguished people, all but Tim
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: Cook just left of Apple and spoke to all of
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: the big companies, great companies, and they won't be able
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: to do this. This will not be successful unless they
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: have one source of approval or disapproval. Frankly, you could
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: have disapproval too, but it's got to be one source.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: They can't go to fifty different sources.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: This seems to be a core point of what the
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: President and what you were trying to accomplish, which is
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: that one source, because otherwise it would be impossible to
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: grow AI and to deal with it the way that
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: we need to deal with it if you didn't have
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: this kind of one standard across the board.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Look, AI is transformational. Think back to the nineteen nineties.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: The nineteen nineties, Bill Clinton was president and the Internet.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: It was the dawn of the Internet, and we made
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: a choice. America made a choice to do a light
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: touch regulatory approach to the Internet, and we ended up
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: winning that race. America dominates tech, We dominate the Internet.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: It produced hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of jobs
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: in the United States. That was incredibly consequential. AI is
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: the same point and Ben, I'll say, Look, I understand
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: people across the country. They're nervous about AI. They're afraid.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: They don't want AI to come take their jobs. They
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: don't want AI to render them irrelevant. They don't like
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: the technology. And I get that that's not a crazy
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: thing to think. Yeah, but look my view, lud eyed,
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: I don't think the fact that you're nervous about technology
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: can make it go away. As much as you might
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: be worried. Listen, I'll readily admit if there were a
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: button in front of me right now to destroy every
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: cell phone in the world, I'd push that button because
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: I think cell phones are a portal. You know, I'm
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: a dad. I've got two teenage girls. Cell phones are
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: a portal to every evil force in the world at
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: our kids. But we don't live in that world. AI
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: is here, it is coming. We have a binary choice.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Does America win it or does China win it. I
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: want you to listen to what I had to say
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: with President Trump in the Oval to day give a listen.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: Ted Cruz has been a very strong advocate of common
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: This is common sense. I mean, I think it's nothing
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: one of the common sense.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Please say, listen, this is the single most important economic
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: question in the country and in the world. Who wins
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: the race for AI. You look back to the nineteen nineties,
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: there was a similar inflation point with the beginning of
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: the Internet, the dawn of the Internet, and Bill Clinton
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: was president at the time. He signed an executive order
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: just like you're doing, that put into law a light
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: touch regulatory approach to the Internet, and the result was
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: incredible economic growth in jobs in the United States. The
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: same time, the European Union took a very heavy handed
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: regulatory approach. Here's an amazing statistic, mister President. In nineteen
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: ninety three, the US economies in Europe's economy were virtually
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: identical in size. Today, America's economy is more than fifty
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: percent larger than Europe's and the two drivers of that
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: are tech and the shale revolution. It transformed this country,
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: and AI is the same thing. It's a race, and
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: if China wins the race, whoever wins, the values of
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: that country will affect all of AI. We don't want
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: China's values of surveillance and centralized control by the communist
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: govern governing AI. We want American values of free speech,
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: of individual liberty, of respecting the individual. So this executive order,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: I believe is a tremendously important Thank you for your leadership.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: You know, Senator, Just to underscore how important this is
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: and what you just described there. Even Donald Trump on
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: True Social said, the Wall Street Journal has another ridiculous
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: story today that China's dominating us in the world on
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: the production of electricity having to do with AI. They're wrong.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: As usual, every AI plant being built in the United
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: States is building its own electric generating facilities. The approvals
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: are being given carefully but very quickly a matter of weeks.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Any excess electricity being produced is going to go to
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: our electric grid, which is being strengthened and expanded for
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: the purpose for other purposes than AI. Like this is
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: not just moving forward and protecting us and going to
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: this race with China. Who's going to be in charge
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: of it, who's going to be the best at it?
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: But this is also building American infrastructure and a lot
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: of American jobs are actually going to be created out
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: of this as well.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: Well.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: This is a common sense principle. We should be the
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: party of jobs. AI. It's going to produce disruption. It's
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: part of the reason people are scared of it. But
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: it's also going to create millions of jobs. And the
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: simple question we want to ask is who do we
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: want to win? Do we want a world where China
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: wins ai AI is coming. You may not like it,
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: you may be scared about it, you may not know.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: And I get it's easy to say. Listen, I wish
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: nuclear weapons didn't exist. If there were a button to
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: make every nuclear weapon disappear, I push that button. But
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: they do exist, and if they exist, I want to
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: make sure America has the best and is able to
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: deter someone attacking US. AI is similar. And I got
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: to say President Trump is being bold, He's being visionary,
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: understands that if we win or lose this, this is
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: the economic battle of the twenty first century. And I
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: was really proud I stood side by side with Donald
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Trump saying America is going to win the race for AI.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: We're going to beat China. That is massively important for
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: jobs in America.
• 26:19
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Finally, Senator, I love doing this show because we get
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  Speaker 1: to bring attention and actually get our listeners involved. The
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: next subject we're going to be talking about is one
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: where I would say to everyone listening. This is when
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: you say, I'm going to take a moment, I'm going
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: to send an email, I'm going to call my center,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna call my congressman. This is something you've been
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: working on. We've been talking about a lot, and it
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: deals with the Muslim Brotherhood bill, and I want you
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: to give this update because it's important and a lot
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: of people that listen to Eric, they say, hey, what
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: can I do? How can my voice be heard? This
• 28:33
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• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, so, Look, the Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: It is one of the most dangerous terrorist organizations on
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: the planet. I have been fighting for literally ten years
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: for the United States to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: a terrorist organization. In the first Trump administration, I came
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: incredibly close. I almost got the Trump administration to do it.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Here's what defeated me. So there's a global umbrella group,
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: the Muslim Brotherhood, and there are a bunch of affiliates
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: that are in different countries. And there were deep state
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: State Department operatives who argued against what I was trying
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: to do in Trump want, and the argument they use
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: that prevailed is they said, well, look, not every single
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood can we prove as a
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: terrorist organization. Some of them clearly are, but others of
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: them there's not clear and irrefutable evidence that they're engaged
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: in terrorism. That's what defeated my effort. Trump won. So
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: here's what I've done Trump too. I said the previous
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: efforts were top down. They were designate the global Muslim
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Brotherhood and then designate all their affiliates. They argued, some
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: of the affiliates may not be terrorists. I don't buy that,
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: but it was an argument, and it was an argument
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: that was successful. In So in Trump two, I inverted
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: the entire approach. I said, all right, let's rather than
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: being top down, let's start bottom up. And so I
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: filed legislation that directed the administration designate every Muslim Brotherhood
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: affiliate that there is clear and unequivocal evidence their terrorist organization.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: So for example, Hamas Hamas is the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine,
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: so there is no dispute Hamas is a terrorist organization.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: So that that is an easy example of a Muslim
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: Brotherhood affiliate that is indisputably terrorist. My legislation says designate
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: the affiliates, and then it says designate the global Muslim
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Brotherhood for providing money, for providing material assistance to the
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: affiliates that are indisputably terrorist organizations. So I filed that legislation.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: I've been pressing the Trump administration. President Trump stepped in
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: and he announced that he was in designating the Muslim
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: Brotherhood's terrorist organization, not the global but the individual affiliates.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: And basically the Trumpet administration is following the approach in
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: my legislation. Now I want you to listen. This week,
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: a State Department official from the Trump administration was testifying
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: before the Senate. I questioned him on this give a listen.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Do you believe the Muslim Brotherhood poses a threat to
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: the national security of the United States.
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Now let's pivot away from the President's executive order to
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: what's happening here in Congress. As I said earlier, and
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: as you observed, I've been pushing to designate the Muslim
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: Brotherhood for more than a decade.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: I've introduced legislation to do so in all but one
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: Congress since I was elected. This Congress, I introduced a
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: version of my bill, the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act,
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: that uses the same bottoms up approach that is in
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: President Trump's executive ward. It has bipartisan support in both chambers.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: Last week, frustratingly, the House version of my bill was
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: advanced but terminally weakened by the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: They took out the designation part of the Muslim Brotherhood
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: Terrorist Designation Act. The Senate should do better, and we
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: should move the full bill on our side. Some public
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: reports and statements have claimed that House members, including House Republicans,
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: did not believe that Congress should have a role in
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: crafting sanctions which are to be implemented by the executive
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: I find that argument to be specious, and I know
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: the vast majority of this committee does as well, Mister Lerherfel,
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: I and my colleagues have implicit and explicit expectations that
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: executive officials will work with and, when appropriate, even defer
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: to this Committee on issues of foreign policy, including sanctions
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: and including the designation of terrorist groups. What is your
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: view of the role that Congris plays on these issues,
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: including on initiatives like mine to designate the Muslim Brotherhood
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: as a terrorist group.
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: Senator Cruz, thank you for your question. I fully respect
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: Congress's Article one authority and making laws, including with respect
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: to foreign terror organization designations or other types of designations.
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: Whatever legislation has passed, I will faithfully execute if I
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: am confirmed.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: Thank you all right. Final question, one element of this
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: debate that continues to surprise me, and I don't think
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: the American people, even many people here in Congress, I
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: don't think they appreciate the degree to which are allies
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: support acknowledging and designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: As you know, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the uae Bahrain, Kenya,
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: they have all already designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: terrorist organization. These are our allies and partners in the
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: Middle East and Africa, and there's a pernicious narrative that
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: doing the same thing they've done designating the Muslim Brotherhood
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: will somehow alienate these partners. Describe how you would work
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: with our allies to counter the Brotherhood's malign activities.
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: Senator Cruz, thank you for that question. I can say
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: that in a previous capacity in the Bureau of counter Terrorism,
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: I led our efforts to designate the IRGC, get designations
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: of other countries to designate the IRGC as well as
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: Hisbela and Hamas, particularly in the Western Hemisphere. That approach,
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: it's pretty pretty intense diplomacy. It requires a lot of legwork.
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: I've talked with our chief submission in the Western Hemisphere
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: across to Australia with respect to that, and saw the
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: news there about four or five months ago what Australia
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: did with respect to the IRGC. I would template that
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: really and get at the Muslim Brotherhood using that diplomatic approach.
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: That worked. That working, and there's more work to be done.
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: Let me be clear, with the IRGC and his Bollah
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: and Hamaus, but I would template that in our efforts
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: with the Muslim Brotherhood.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Terrific, very helpy, Thank you, thank you, sir.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: You're here, your question there, and I want you to
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: just explain why this is so important center.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: We need to be clear eyed. We need to be
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: clear eyed about the threats to America. The Muslim Brotherhood
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: is a radical jihadist global terror network. They are funding
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: Jahatis in countries across the globe and we are seeing
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: we started this podcast by talking about eighteen thousand terrorists
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: coming to this country. Enter Joe Biden. These are the
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Muslim Brotherhood is deliberately promoting people who are seeking to
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: engage in act acts of terror. They're seeking to wage jihad.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: And we need to be serious and clear eyed. And
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: I got to say there's some Republicans that are nervous
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: about this, but Donald Trump is not. And his designation
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: was historic, and I'm continuing to work hand in hand
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: with him to protect American to protect the American people
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: against the threat of the Muslim Brotherhood, against the threat
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: of Johns.
• 36:07
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• 36:09
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