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Residents Sue Chicago Mayor over Migrant Tent City, WH Interns DEMAND Ceasefire in Middle East & BIG WIN for Conservatives · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Black residents are now suing This is not a joke. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you ready for this are now suing the Chicago Mayor
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  Speaker 1: Brandon Johnson over migrant tent cities. The state halts construction
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: over the toxic chemicals in the soil.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: African American residents of Chicago's Brighton Park have officially sued
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  Speaker 1: the Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson over the construction of his
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  Speaker 1: massive tent city city for illegal border crossers, but not
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  Speaker 1: before state authorities shut down construction over a report over
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  Speaker 1: the report that the site may be a toxic landfill.
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  Speaker 1: Mayor Johnson's plans to build a tent encampment for up
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  Speaker 1: to one thousand, four hundred legal aliens has been under
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  Speaker 1: fire since it was proposed, and residents there Democrats quickly
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  Speaker 1: organized to oppose the plans to put hundreds of illegal
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  Speaker 1: migrants right in the middle of their neighborhood without so
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  Speaker 1: much as a community meeting or a discussion with their
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  Speaker 1: alderman aka their city council members. Twelfth District Alderman Julia
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  Speaker 1: Ramirez has disavowed Johnson's construction efforts. Ramirez says she has
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  Speaker 1: no part at all in the planning and execution of
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  Speaker 1: the plans in Brighton Park. The Alderman's letter to her
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  Speaker 1: constituents came only days after she was mobbed by furious
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  Speaker 1: residents when she visited the location of the proposed tent
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  Speaker 1: city on October nineteenth. According to the ex account of
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  Speaker 1: the sixteenth and seventeenth District Chicago Police Scanner, residents of
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  Speaker 1: Brighton Park are now suing. Brighton Park residents are suing
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  Speaker 1: the City of Chicago for a temporary restraining order on
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  Speaker 1: the thirty eighth and the California Migrant Tent City. At
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  Speaker 1: the hearing, it was revealed the city never used that
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  Speaker 1: the city never issued construction permits for the tent city.
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  Speaker 1: The city is arguing that residents can't hold the city
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  Speaker 1: accountable for following its own zoning and building codes. The
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  Speaker 1: Brandon Johnson administration is basically saying that the city doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have to follow its own building codes and laws. The
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  Speaker 1: city is also arguing that the soil is safe as
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  Speaker 1: long as.
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  Speaker 2: You're ready for this.
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  Speaker 1: Don't eat it. Not a joke, as long as you
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  Speaker 1: don't eat it. The mayor seems to understand how unpopular
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  Speaker 1: his tent city is when the local Fox affiliate there
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  Speaker 1: sent a camera crew to film some of the construction
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  Speaker 1: work being done on the site. Workers suddenly appear to
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  Speaker 1: line the safety fence in black material to keep the
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  Speaker 1: prying eyes the city residents and the media out of
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  Speaker 1: Johnson's business. You can't make this up the tent city.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to know how much is going to
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  Speaker 1: cost the taxpayers of Chicago the tent city.
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  Speaker 2: And this is how you know somebody is getting paid.
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  Speaker 1: These are how government kickbacks go to family and friends
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  Speaker 1: and uncles and cousins of aldermen and city council members
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  Speaker 1: and government employees and the mayor.
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  Speaker 2: You ready for the price of this damn thing.
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  Speaker 1: The tent city is set to cost Chicago a whopping
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine million, with a contract with Aegis Defense Services
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  Speaker 1: under a branch being called guarda World Federal Services. Now,
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  Speaker 1: even before the residents of Chicago launched their lawsuit, constructions
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  Speaker 1: on Johnson's much opposed tent city was put on hold
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  Speaker 1: by state officials after a newly released environmental report suggested
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  Speaker 1: that the land upon which the tent city is being
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  Speaker 1: erected is dripping in hazardous chemicals. Quote, state is temporarily
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  Speaker 1: temporarily paused construction of the Brighton Park site pending the
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  Speaker 1: Illinois Environmental Protection Agency's review of environmental report. The IEPA
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  Speaker 1: has some outstanding questions they are hopeful that they can
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  Speaker 1: work through today. Is what the governor said to the
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  Speaker 1: media on Monday.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Johnson's office confirmed the quote hitch in the tent City, saying,
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  Speaker 1: according to report, soil with mercury levels was identified at
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  Speaker 1: one location, was removed and properly disposed off site at
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  Speaker 1: a landfill, and with a limited soil removal and placement
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  Speaker 1: and maintenance of the barrier, the site is saved for
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  Speaker 1: temporary residential use, the Mayor's office claims. They then went
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  Speaker 1: on to say further base camp construction and re and
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  Speaker 1: remediation of an additional one by one by one foot
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  Speaker 1: area of the nine point five acre site one continue
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  Speaker 1: per the timeline set by the State of Illinois. There
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  Speaker 1: is no construction or remediation schedule at this time. The
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  Speaker 1: city will share assessment of subsequent remediation as it becomes available.
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  Speaker 1: Johnson's office new of the toxic chemicals being found in
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  Speaker 1: the soil at the site, but deemed the conducted to
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  Speaker 1: level the ground for the tent city to be sufficient
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  Speaker 1: to eliminate the threat, and says much of it in
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  Speaker 1: the report released last week. In its report, the city claimed, quote,
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  Speaker 1: with a limited soul removal and placement and maintenance of
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  Speaker 1: the barrier, the site is safe for temporary residential use.
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  Speaker 1: So to be clear, these democrats are so compassionate. They're
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  Speaker 1: going to put these illegal immigrants, costing the taxpayers just
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  Speaker 1: to build the site twenty nine million, on soil that
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  Speaker 1: has mercury in it, and they say, hey, it's totally safe.
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  Speaker 1: Just don't eat the soil, sleep on it, play on it,
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  Speaker 1: have your kids play on it.
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  Speaker 2: Just don't eat it.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the mayor says that he is sure that quote
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  Speaker 1: the limited soul removal was enough to eliminate any toxicity.
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  Speaker 1: State officials, by the way, said they're not going to
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  Speaker 1: just believe his basic claims. An attorney for the residents
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  Speaker 1: suing to stop the construction of the facility was incensed
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  Speaker 1: over the whole entire situation, saying the city has been dishonest,
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  Speaker 1: they're liars, they're untruthful, and they're not being transparent. The
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  Speaker 1: city is not an honest broker. But what I will
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  Speaker 1: do is keep them accountable if they do lie, and
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  Speaker 1: if they're not transparent, then I will hold them in
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  Speaker 1: court in contempt. That is what Attorney Frank Avlis said
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  Speaker 1: on Monday, who were representing the residents who were saying
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  Speaker 1: hell no to this encampment. Now, this is the chickens
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  Speaker 1: coming home to roost in a way that just makes
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  Speaker 1: me laugh, because this is hardcore lefties who are now
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  Speaker 1: upset that their hard core leftist policies are going to
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  Speaker 1: fain life. I find great pleasure in watching the left
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  Speaker 1: turn on the left, because we've been saying we told
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  Speaker 1: you so on these issues for quite some time. White
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  Speaker 1: House in turns send stern letter to Biden demanding a
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  Speaker 1: Middle East ceasefire. There's nothing funnier than watching the Democratic
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  Speaker 1: Party like go to war within their own party, because,
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  Speaker 1: to be clear, the young Democratic Party, the younger Democrats
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  Speaker 1: are pro Hamas, pro Palestinian, and they're anti Semites. We're
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  Speaker 1: now seeing this on college campuses, we are seeing this
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  Speaker 1: on Capitol Hill. I'm in Washington, d C. As we
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  Speaker 1: speak right now, looking at the Washington Monument and the
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  Speaker 1: US Capitol, and I can tell you from the protests
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  Speaker 1: that I've seen here over the last two days. It
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  Speaker 1: is a lot of Hill staffers that are anti Semitic,
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  Speaker 1: anti Israel, and pro Palestinian Hamas period.
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  Speaker 2: I also walk the halls of Congress.
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  Speaker 1: And they're are a shocking number of Palestinian flags outside
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  Speaker 1: of members of the House's offices. Forty plus now White
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  Speaker 1: House interns have sent a letter to President Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 1: This is their boss, the president units. It's America, okay.
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  Speaker 1: They're an intern demanding a permanent ceasefire between Israel and
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  Speaker 1: and the Hamas terrorist organizations, further accusing him of having
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  Speaker 1: ignored the police, they say of the American people. NBC
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  Speaker 1: News first shared the address to Biden and Vice President
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  Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, which also contained a call for the release
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  Speaker 1: of all hostages, including Palestinian political prisoners, alongside an end
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  Speaker 1: to the Israeli apartheid in the region. Their words, these
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  Speaker 1: are White House staffers. It is supported by more than
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  Speaker 1: forty interns who work in the White House and other
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  Speaker 1: executive branch offices. According to the text, the signs all
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  Speaker 1: chose to remain, of course, anonymous, because there are.
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  Speaker 2: A bunch of woke, woosy liberals.
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  Speaker 1: If you're gonna say this, you should sign your damn
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  Speaker 1: name to it, and if you don't, then shut up
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  Speaker 1: and get back to your job. Quote we the undersigned
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  Speaker 1: Fall twenty twenty three, Fall White House and Executive Office
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  Speaker 1: of the President. Interns will no longer remain silent, but
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  Speaker 1: they won't give you their name.
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  Speaker 2: You can't make that up.
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  Speaker 1: On the ongoing genocide they call it of the Palestinian people,
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  Speaker 1: the interns began. They then went on to set out
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  Speaker 1: the conditions of their demand for an end due hostilities,
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  Speaker 1: while claiming to be acting on the voices of the
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  Speaker 1: American people. Quote, we heed the voices of the American
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  Speaker 1: people and call on the Biden administration to demand a
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  Speaker 1: permanent cease fire.
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  Speaker 2: The interns continued.
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  Speaker 1: We are not the decision makers of today, but we
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  Speaker 1: aspire to be the leaders of tomorrow, and we will
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  Speaker 1: never forget how the pleas of the American people have
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  Speaker 1: been heard and thus far, they say, ignored. Now the
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  Speaker 1: writers of this angry, psychotic letter to their boss, who
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  Speaker 1: refused to sign their name because they're a bunch of wisses,
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  Speaker 1: like those at other agencies who have sent similar emails
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  Speaker 1: in recent weeks, decline to sign their names to the letter.
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  Speaker 1: All together like there's no one that we know that
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  Speaker 1: was actually writing this letter, which is hysterical. Instead, they
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  Speaker 1: identify themselves by offices, including the Executive Office of the President,
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  Speaker 1: the Office of the Vice President, and the Domestic Policy Council,
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  Speaker 1: and as Palestinian, Jewish, Arab, Muslim, Christian, Black, Asian, Latina, white,
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  Speaker 1: and queer. The letter ends with a declaration that anything
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  Speaker 1: bar anything bar a ceasefire and an end to Israel's
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  Speaker 1: mass slaughter of inoctance civilians in the Gaza Strip will
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  Speaker 1: not be tolerated. So this is a letter of forty
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  Speaker 1: plus White House and Executive Office Building interns for Palestine.
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  Speaker 2: Quote.
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  Speaker 1: While the American while the administration express support for the
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  Speaker 1: humanitarian pause, we maintain that anything other than a complete
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  Speaker 1: halt of Israel's mass slaughter of innocent civilians in the
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  Speaker 1: Gaza Strip will simply not suffice. We urge the Biden
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  Speaker 1: administration to call for a permanent ceasefire now, a release
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  Speaker 1: of all hostages, including Palestinian political prisoners, and to support
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  Speaker 1: a diplomatic solution that will put an end to.
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  Speaker 2: The illegal illegal They use this word.
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  Speaker 1: This is the White House employees an illegal occupation and
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  Speaker 1: the Israeli apartheid in accordance with international law and for
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  Speaker 1: a free Palestine. Applicants, by the way, just so you know,
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  Speaker 1: to become interns must be US citizens and must.
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  Speaker 2: Be eighteen or older.
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  Speaker 1: Now this also tells you just how rogue the Democratic
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  Speaker 1: Party is. And I've said this, the Democratic Party's dead.
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  Speaker 1: The Democratic Party is masquerading as Democrats. They're really just
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  Speaker 1: socialists and communists. This letter is proof of that. I
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  Speaker 1: do believe by the way that they're not overstating the
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  Speaker 1: number of people on this letter. I do believe there's
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  Speaker 1: twenty two communists that decide to write this letter and
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  Speaker 1: to be anti Semitic and to accuse Israel of apartheid.
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  Speaker 1: By the way they said in this letter, these are
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  Speaker 1: the demands. So these are interns who are here for
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  Speaker 1: a very short season, like three months, four months. These
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  Speaker 1: are interns that are demanding that the president quote they
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  Speaker 1: must meet one of the three criteria. The president the
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  Speaker 1: vice president must do more. Now, now let me tell
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  Speaker 1: you about who these people are, just so to you understand,
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  Speaker 1: they must be enrolled in college or university to become
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  Speaker 1: an intern, or have graduated from a two or four
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  Speaker 1: year institution or be a US military veteran with a
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  Speaker 1: high school diploma or equivalent to even be in the
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  Speaker 1: program of interns. And now they're talking, they're demanding and
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  Speaker 1: yelling at their boss, the President, that it's America, Joe Biden,
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  Speaker 1: the Vice President, Kama Harris. Look, when I was with
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  Speaker 1: the Bush administration in two thousand and four, I remember
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  Speaker 1: vividly somebody taking a party picture at a official White
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  Speaker 1: House gathering and putting it up on I think it
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: was my Space at the time. It was like right
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: when Facebook was just getting started and you had to
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  Speaker 1: have a dot edu email to even get a Facebook page.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, And.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody put up the letter the picture and they had
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  Speaker 1: their land with the big E for access to the
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  Speaker 1: White House around their next and I remember the email
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  Speaker 1: that came down.
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  Speaker 2: To virtually every staffer.
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  Speaker 1: In the old Executive Office Building and at the White House,
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  Speaker 1: Like the EEOB is next door to the White House.
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  Speaker 1: Just so you understand, ninety nine percent of the meetings
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  Speaker 1: that take place quote at the White House, actually take
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  Speaker 1: place the EEO B U nine nine point eight percent
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  Speaker 1: of the staff is in the EEO B barely anyone
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  Speaker 1: because the White House is actually not that big.
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  Speaker 2: The office space is not that big, just so you understand.
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  Speaker 1: And so this email went out and was like, if
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  Speaker 1: if any of you ever do this again, you will
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: be immediately fired from your internship, Like there was a
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  Speaker 1: zero tolerance policy for posting a picture of you like
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  Speaker 1: kind of bragging or even like, you know, like looking
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  Speaker 1: like you're maybe partying while you're at work.
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  Speaker 2: And I remember.
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  Speaker 1: Each one of the staff men then sitting down with
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  Speaker 1: their direct staff of young staff members and interns and
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  Speaker 1: being like, you're not here for a party, You're not
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  Speaker 1: here for this, You're here serving at the pleasure of
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  Speaker 1: the president. That it's America. It was a all out
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  Speaker 1: get you your life in order. No one else better
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  Speaker 1: do this, and if you do, you're gone immediately. Look
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  Speaker 1: how far we've fallen since that standard back in two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and four. You now have forty plus people that
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  Speaker 1: work for the president who are chastising the president, telling
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  Speaker 1: the president you're wrong in your foreign policy and making
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  Speaker 1: demands of the president and Kamala Harrison, you better do
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  Speaker 1: this and turn against Israel and Israel is the terrorists
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  Speaker 1: and they're the ones that are killing innocent people and
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  Speaker 1: genocide and you better listen to us, and you better
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  Speaker 1: turned around right now. But we won't sign our names
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  Speaker 1: to the letter. We won't sign our names to the letter.
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  Speaker 1: Guys are cowards. That's what they are. They're cowards. And
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  Speaker 1: the reason why they didn't sign their name is because
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure they would then know that, hey, there would
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  Speaker 1: be repercussions for their actions.
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  Speaker 2: So they still want it both ways.
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  Speaker 1: They don't want to lose their job if they really
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  Speaker 1: believe this and find quit, do forty one people and
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  Speaker 1: sign your names and a resignation letter saying we are
• 16:20
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  Speaker 1: you about. As Speaker Mike Johnson tables a move to
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  Speaker 1: slip deep state reauthorization into the Defense bill, this is massive.
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  Speaker 1: Speaker Mike Johnson reportedly tabled a move to slip a
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  Speaker 1: deep state reauthorization into the Defense spending bill. This broke
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  Speaker 1: as he he knicks the extension of the FAISA authority
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  Speaker 1: as part of the National Defense Authorization Act.
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  Speaker 2: This is obviously massive.
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  Speaker 1: It was reported that Johnson and other congressional leaders had
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  Speaker 1: wanted to temporarily reauthorize section seven oh two of the
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  Speaker 1: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance FISA in the National Defense Authorization Acts.
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  Speaker 1: Section seven oh two is the controversial government surveillance law,
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  Speaker 1: and the proposed move received strong backlash from fifty four
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  Speaker 1: bipartisan House lawmakers and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan.
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  Speaker 1: Keeping FISA out of the NDAA as a victory for
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  Speaker 1: the American people who demand the end of warrantless government surveillance.
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  Speaker 1: I applaud Speaker Johnson's decision to not cave to the
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  Speaker 1: Biden administration, Chrisopher Ray, and the entire intel community is
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: what Representative Warren Davison, a Republican from Ohio, said in
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: a statement. At one point, Johnson's office refused to confirm
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  Speaker 1: to Breitbart News represented Matt Gates claim that there would
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  Speaker 1: be no wreath authorization temporary or otherwise of Section seven
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  Speaker 1: oh two. Johnson said that they would allow for the
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  Speaker 1: different Section seven to two fixes to be considered on
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  Speaker 1: the House floor now. During a closed door conference meeting
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesday, Johnson said he could bring Jordan's and Turner's
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  Speaker 1: procedural gambut known as King of the Hill if there
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  Speaker 1: isn't a consensus over Section seven oh two that accord
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  Speaker 1: to two Republicans in the room. Under that gamut, leadership
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  Speaker 1: the vote and still gets a majority is the one
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  Speaker 1: that gets adopted. It allows leadership to try to influence
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  Speaker 1: the outcome by putting its preferred proposal last. Now as
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  Speaker 1: recently as Tuesday night, Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat from
• 20:53
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  Speaker 1: Senator Mike Lee, Republican from U TI, tall to rein
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  Speaker 1: in section seven oh two oppose an extension of the NDAA,
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  Speaker 1: saying this we're going the distance with reform. Business as
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  Speaker 1: usual is not going to be acceptable. When I started,
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  Speaker 1: it was pretty lonely. You could have meetings about seven
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  Speaker 1: oh two reform operations in a couple of phone boots,
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  Speaker 1: And I'm looking around now and I'm seeing a lot
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  Speaker 1: of allies, Wyden said, noting that he does not see
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  Speaker 1: how a clean authorization could have been possible with a
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  Speaker 1: strong bipartisan opposition to such a move, as Johnson, the
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  Speaker 1: Speaker and other Congressional leaders can no longer wish or
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  Speaker 1: excuse me no longer wish to include section seven oh
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  Speaker 1: two in the debate. That means the Judiciary Committee will
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  Speaker 1: now consider the merits of their proposal to rein in
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  Speaker 1: this controversial warrantless surveillance on Americans. The Protect Liberty an
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  Speaker 1: End War Warrantless Surveillance Act would require a warrant for
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  Speaker 1: any Americans information sought under section seven oh two. The
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  Speaker 1: program does not currently require a warrant for such a search.
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  Speaker 1: The legislation, by the way, would also prohibit law enforcement
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  Speaker 1: eligence agencies from purchasing Americans private data through a data
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  Speaker 1: broker or data brokers, a practice by the way, which
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  Speaker 1: has been known as the data broker loophole. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: they could go and get your data from Facebook or
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  Speaker 1: Instagram or Twitter or x or.
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  Speaker 2: Google and buy your data.
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  Speaker 1: Now, they're saying the US government would be prohibited from
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  Speaker 1: doing that. Biggs and other lawmakers have decried this practice,
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  Speaker 1: believing it to be a run around the Fourth Amendment.
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  Speaker 1: Congressman Biggs had this to say about this Defense three
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  Speaker 1: Authorization Act and pulling this out of the bill, to.
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  Speaker 3: The laws governing the Fourth Amendment are not necessarily being
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  Speaker 3: applied in certain digital contexts, and courts do not consider
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  Speaker 3: searches of database that have been acquired through purchase as
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  Speaker 3: requiring warrants. The key legislation in this space of the
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  Speaker 3: Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which was written in nineteen eighty
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  Speaker 3: six and did not take into account all the advances
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  Speaker 3: in digital communication that have occurred since that time. It
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  Speaker 3: is therefore necessary to do our job to update key
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  Speaker 3: tenets of privacy law.
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  Speaker 4: This bill would prevent federal agencies.
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  Speaker 3: Further abuse of this loophole, rather than obtaining a warrant,
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  Speaker 3: as they would be required to for a wiretap of
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  Speaker 3: a phone call.
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  Speaker 4: Government agencies such as.
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  Speaker 3: The FBI, IRSDA, DHS, and others have begun buying data
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  Speaker 3: from data brokers to instead to increase mass amounts to
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  Speaker 3: mass large amounts of Americans data and then search with
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  Speaker 3: no warrant in another example.
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  Speaker 4: In one example the CD.
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  Speaker 1: You're not just a homeowner, You're also a bug in
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  Speaker 1: the basement with a frightening number of legs owner. All right,
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  Speaker 1: let me obviously jumped in there. Let me say this
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  Speaker 1: as well about what Andy Biggs is saying. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to get back to this. I hate it when
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  Speaker 1: they do this because I have this queued up. It
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  Speaker 1: drives me nuts. I apologize. There nothing I can do.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Internet nowadays. But listen to the second
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  Speaker 1: part of what Andy Biggs had to say in this
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  Speaker 1: audio as he's talking about this bill and what it
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  Speaker 1: would do and how it would limit FBI agents searching
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  Speaker 1: your info.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty thousand dollars to purchase location data during the pandemic
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  Speaker 3: to determine whether Americans were going to church, visiting their neighbors,
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  Speaker 3: or otherwise abiding by the government's arbitrary social distancing laws.
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  Speaker 3: This bill will prohibit the government's purchase of this data
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  Speaker 3: data that includes private personal information like location information, online data,
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  Speaker 3: health information, et cetera. We'll also require the government to
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  Speaker 3: get a court order to force data brokers to disclose data,
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  Speaker 3: treating these cases more like traditional phone wiretaps.
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  Speaker 4: The Committee has in recent years passed major reforms to.
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  Speaker 3: Overhaul the ECPA, but those bills have never made it
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  Speaker 3: into law. It's time to finally move major legislation to
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  Speaker 3: protect privacy, and this bill is exactly the type of
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  Speaker 3: legislation needed to rein in the federal government and protect
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  Speaker 3: the privacy rights of Americans. Data brokers are selling Americans
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  Speaker 3: personal information to law enforcement and intelligence agencies, which are
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  Speaker 3: then being searched without warrants and without oversight, in contrast
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  Speaker 3: to strict rules that prevent phone companies and social media
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  Speaker 3: sites from selling such information to the government. This is
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  Speaker 3: Congress's job to update the law and fill in gaps
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  Speaker 3: that arise over time.
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  Speaker 4: We must act to day to pass this.
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  Speaker 3: Bill and in the government's ability to avoid the Fourth
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  Speaker 3: Amendment by purchasing your highly sensitive information from data brokers
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  Speaker 3: and then ultimately using it against you.
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  Speaker 4: The Fourth Amendment is not for Sale Act.
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  Speaker 3: Would close this legal loop poll and is a critical
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  Speaker 3: step and limiting the federal government's warrantless surveillance of Americans.
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  Speaker 3: I am appreciative of those on the other side of
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  Speaker 3: the aisle who are sponsoring this important piece of legislation.
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  Speaker 3: I look forward to bipartisan support for this now and
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  Speaker 3: on the floor, and I appreciate everyone who's worked on this.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's Andy Biggs saying this, and I love
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  Speaker 1: the fact that he's talking about how much money they're
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  Speaker 1: spending to buy up your data from private companies that
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  Speaker 1: are then sending it or selling it to the United
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  Speaker 1: States government because of this loophole.
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  Speaker 2: And he's like, we got to close this loophole because
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  Speaker 2: the US.
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  Speaker 1: Government is taking your tax dollars and they're taking those
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  Speaker 1: tax dollars to then buy your intel and then use
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  Speaker 1: that intel against you again from the private sector. So
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  Speaker 1: the fact that this wasn't in this Defense Authorization Reauthorization.
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  Speaker 2: Act, this is not bad news.
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  Speaker 1: This is a news and conservatives and this is the
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  Speaker 1: reason why, by the way, Kevin McCarthy, I'm glad he's
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  Speaker 1: no longer the Speaker of the House because Kevin McCarthy
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  Speaker 1: would have never done what Speaker Johnson.
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  Speaker 2: Just did, okay, period, full stop.
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  Speaker 1: If Kevin McCarthy was the speaker, this would have definitely
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  Speaker 1: stayed in the bill because Kevin McCarthy's a big government
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  Speaker 1: guy who believes that the government's job is to do
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  Speaker 1: whatever the blank they want to do. To be honest
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  Speaker 1: with you, like they just they think they should be
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  Speaker 1: able to do whatever they want to do whenever they
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  Speaker 1: want to do it, no matter what. And Johnson said no.
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  Speaker 1: Now he's saying, look, there can be an in between,
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  Speaker 1: a happy medium where we're not abusing the rights of Americans,
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  Speaker 1: and we can do that, but we're not gonna sit
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  Speaker 1: there and act like this is this is happening right now,
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  Speaker 1: Like we're not gonna sit there and act We're not
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  Speaker 1: gonna sit there and we're not gonna act like this
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  Speaker 1: is okay to continue to abuse the American people, inspy
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  Speaker 1: on the American people whenever we want to, however we want.
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  Speaker 1: Let me also say, please share this on social media,
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  Speaker 1: all of this intel that I just gave you, Please
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  Speaker 1: share it wherever you can on social media, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: see you back here tomorrow.