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The Battle for Somaliland, Trump takes a BITE out of DC Violence & DOJ Warned Biden Over Legally Flawed Pardons Week In Review · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome.
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Speaker 2: In his verdict with Ted Crue's weekend Review, Ben Ferguson
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Speaker 2: with you, and here are three of the major stories
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Speaker 2: that you may have missed that we talked about this week.
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Speaker 2: First up Center Cruz calling out China on creating a
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Speaker 2: new country in Africa. Why is the media not talking
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Speaker 2: about it? Well, we have the details that you need
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Speaker 2: to know. Also, DC crime is down as Donald Trump
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Speaker 2: commits to making sure that people that live in the
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Speaker 2: District Columbia are actually safe, and the data is truly
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Speaker 2: staggering just how quick the president was able to restore
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Speaker 2: a law and order to a city that been broken
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Speaker 2: for decades. And finally, the auto pen Joe Biden was
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Speaker 2: actually warned by his own Department of Justice that what
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Speaker 2: they were doing was problematic, yet he did it anyway.
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Speaker 2: Why did he not pay attention to the warnings? And
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Speaker 2: maybe it was because he wasn't actually even in charge.
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Speaker 2: We'll have that for you. It's the weekend review and
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Speaker 2: it starts right now. I want to move to this
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Speaker 2: other story, and it's one realistically that probably ninety nine
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Speaker 2: percent of this audience doesn't even know about this because
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Speaker 2: no one's covering it. It doesn't mean that it's not
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Speaker 2: an extremely important story.
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Speaker 1: It is you calling out China.
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Speaker 2: It's an epic fight over creating a new country in Africa.
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Speaker 2: This reminds me of that story we were talking about
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Speaker 2: not that long ago, about China creating an island in
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Speaker 2: the middle of the ocean based of nowhere that we
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Speaker 2: helped give them air superiority if there was a massive
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Speaker 2: world event that took place, another World war, it would
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Speaker 2: give them the ability to reach places they currently cannot reach.
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Speaker 2: And now we're hearing that they're looking at creating a
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Speaker 2: new country in Africa. You're trying to bring that to
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Speaker 2: light and also stop it. Well, that's exactly right.
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Speaker 3: So I am the chairman of the Africa Subcommittee of
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Speaker 3: the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and so I've been sharing
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Speaker 3: a number of hearings, in particular focusing on the growing
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Speaker 3: influence of communist China in Africa. Africa has become a
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Speaker 3: major battleground where China is trying to gain influence, trying
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Speaker 3: to gain power, and do so at the expense of America.
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Speaker 3: And so what this last week I wrote a letter
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Speaker 3: to President Trump urging the President to recognize a new
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Speaker 3: country in Africa. I'm going to read you the letter.
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Speaker 3: Dear President Trump, I write to urge your administration to
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Speaker 3: formally recognize the Republic of Somaliland as an independent state
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Speaker 3: with sovereignty within its nineteen sixty borders. Somaliland first gained
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Speaker 3: independence and international recognition in nineteen sixty before voluntarily uniting
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Speaker 3: with Somalia later that year. Since moving to reclaim its
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Speaker 3: independence in nineteen ninety one, it has functioned as a stable,
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Speaker 3: self governing democratic nation. It has held several peaceful elections
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Speaker 3: since two thousand and three, marked by strong voter turnout
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Speaker 3: and peaceful trendsransitions of power. Somaliland has emerged as a
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Speaker 3: critical security and diplomatic partner for the United States, helping
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Speaker 3: America advance our national security interest in the Horn of
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Speaker 3: Africa and beyond. It is strategically located on the Gulf
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Speaker 3: of Aiden, putting it near one of the world's busiest
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Speaker 3: maritime corridors. It possesses capable armed forces and contributes to
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Speaker 3: regional counter terrorism and piracy operations. It has enabled the
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Speaker 3: opening of a Taiwanese representative office in the capital of Hargisa,
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Speaker 3: sought to strengthen ties with Israel and voice support for
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Speaker 3: the Abraham Accords. It has proposed hosting a US military
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Speaker 3: presence near the Red Sea along the Gulf of Aden,
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Speaker 3: and is open to critical minerals agreements that would support
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Speaker 3: our supply chain resilience. The US Somaliland partnership is robust
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Speaker 3: and it is deepening. Somaliland faces mounting pressure from adversaries,
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Speaker 3: doing no small part to its role as a partner
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Speaker 3: for the United States and our allies. The Chinese Communist
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Speaker 3: Party is using economic and diplomatic coercion to punish Somaliland
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Speaker 3: for its support for Taiwan, as well as to undermine
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Speaker 3: that support. The Government of Somalia has played an unfortunate
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Speaker 3: role in these efforts. In April twenty twenty five, the
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Speaker 3: CCP arranged for Somalia to bar Taiwanese passport holders from
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Speaker 3: transiting into Somaliland, and Chinese support to Somalia is benefiting
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Speaker 3: anti Somaliland groups working to erode its sovereignty. Despite these threats,
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Speaker 3: Somaliland remains committed to forging closer ties with the US
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Speaker 3: and is actively engage in enhancing military cooperation, counter terrorism efforts,
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Speaker 3: and economy and trade partnerships to do so. To the
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Speaker 3: greatest effect and the greatest benefit to American national security interest.
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Speaker 3: It requires the status of a state. I urge you
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Speaker 3: to grant it that recognition. This is obviously significant. What
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Speaker 3: are the chances that this could move forward this way?
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Speaker 4: Look, I'm optimistic.
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Speaker 3: I think there's a real chance the President will recognize Somaliland.
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Speaker 4: As I said, they've been an ally to us. They've
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Speaker 4: been an ally.
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Speaker 3: This is a Muslim country and in a very dangerous
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Speaker 3: part of Africa. And they've shown real courage. They've shown
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Speaker 3: real courage standing with the United States. They've shown real
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Speaker 3: courage standing up to China. They've shown real courage siding
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Speaker 3: with Taiwan, which infuriates communist China. They've shown real courage
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Speaker 3: embracing Israel and the Abraham Accords. I think Somaliland would
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Speaker 3: eagerly joined the Abraham Accords and and and so it
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Speaker 3: is in America's national security interest. I believe to recognize Somaliland,
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Speaker 3: and and and and probably the best confirmation of that
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Speaker 3: is this week China put out a public release blasting
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Speaker 3: me absolutely furious uh that that I made this public
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Speaker 3: call to recognize Somaliland, and and and here's what China
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Speaker 3: put out as their statement they said, quote a US
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Speaker 3: senator in a letter boasting of so called US recognition
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Speaker 3: of Somaliland region launched baseless attacks against China and China
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Speaker 3: Somalia relations. The Chinese Embassy in Somalia firmly opposes this misconduct.
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Speaker 3: This coursive letter constitutes serious interference in the internal affairs
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Speaker 3: of Somalia and further exposes the hegemonic and bully attitude
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Speaker 3: of certain US politicians to the Somali people. Respect for
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Speaker 3: sovereignty and territorial integrity and non interference in each other's
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Speaker 3: internal affairs are enshrined in the UN Charter as basic
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Speaker 3: norms governing international relations for safeguarding world peace and stability.
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Speaker 3: China never interferes in other countries' internal affairs and absolutely
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Speaker 3: does not accept meddling in its own internal affairs by
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Speaker 3: any countries. Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory.
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Speaker 3: This is history and this is reality. China firmly opposes
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Speaker 3: taiwan independent separatism and external interference, and possesses the legitimate
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Speaker 3: right to take measures to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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Speaker 3: The fact that China is freaking out, the fact that
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Speaker 3: they are this pissed off from my perspective, confirms that
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Speaker 3: that I was exactly right, and as yet another argument
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Speaker 3: why President Trump should should recognize Somali Land as an
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Speaker 3: ally to America and as a country in Africa willing
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Speaker 3: to stand up to communist China.
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Speaker 2: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation,
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Speaker 2: you can go back and listen to the full podcast
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Speaker 2: from earlier this week. Now onto story number two. You
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Speaker 2: talk about the president having leverage. Let's move to Washington,
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Speaker 2: d C. And everyone that said the president was like
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Speaker 2: being a dictator and a tyrant by sitting in the
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Speaker 2: National Guard actually trying to fight crime. They said, this
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Speaker 2: was just him being a bully. He was obsessed with
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Speaker 2: the media. This is what tyrants and dictators do. He's
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Speaker 2: gonna roll the National Guard and militarize every city in
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Speaker 2: America that he doesn't like.
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Speaker 1: That was the narrative.
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Speaker 2: Well, guess what they got it wrong again, DC crime
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Speaker 2: since the announcement of the Federal control versus the seven
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Speaker 2: day prior to that, you have that data now Center. Please,
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Speaker 2: for everyone that's listening, go through every category of a shock.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 2: I say that sarcastically more law enforcement on the street,
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Speaker 2: law and order. What happens less crime.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it turns out when you arrest criminals, you get
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Speaker 3: less crime.
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Speaker 4: I know.
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Speaker 3: That's a shocking outcome. It's one Democrats don't understand and
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Speaker 3: the media doesn't understand. But everyone whose head is not
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Speaker 3: fully inserted up their rear end gets that point.
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Speaker 4: Here is a.
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Speaker 3: Tweet from the DC Police Union. DC crime since the
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Speaker 3: announcement of federal control versus the seven days prior, robbery
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Speaker 3: down forty six percent, carjacking down eighty three percent, car
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Speaker 3: theft down twenty one percent, violent crime down twenty two percent,
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Speaker 3: property crime down six percent, and all crimes down eight percent.
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Speaker 3: That is in one week, in seven days. And if
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Speaker 3: you hear a wailing in the distance, that is the
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Speaker 3: collective wail of pain and unhappiness of Democrats in the media.
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Speaker 3: Because understood, this is not hyperbole. They are rooting for
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Speaker 3: the criminals. They do not want crime to go down,
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Speaker 3: because if crime goes down, it vindicates President Trump exercising
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Speaker 3: his constitutional authority to concerning d C and exercising his
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Speaker 3: authority is explicit statutory authority under the DC Home Rule Act.
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Speaker 3: The Democrats do not want that no.
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Speaker 1: They don't.
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Speaker 2: And there's also another aspect of this story, and that
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Speaker 2: is we now have the Justice Department that's investigating whether Washington,
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Speaker 2: DC police manipulated their crime data. Remember I was shoot
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Speaker 2: I was on scene in a week and a half,
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Speaker 2: two weeks ago, and they're like, your staff are wrong.
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Speaker 2: Crime is way down. The President doesn't need to do this.
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Speaker 2: Everything's moving in the right direction. Well, it may have
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Speaker 2: looked like crime was down, but now the Justice Department
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Speaker 2: is investigating whether the DC police purposely willfully manipulate the
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Speaker 2: crime data to basically fake people out, lie to the
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Speaker 2: systems of DC and they said, no, no, everything's getting better
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Speaker 2: from last year when it was really, really, really bad,
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Speaker 2: now it's not as bad. And apparently they may manipulated
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Speaker 2: the numbers, including a whistleblower that they've settled with.
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Speaker 3: Yet Look, I can tell you from someone who works
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Speaker 3: in DC, so most weeks I am in DC in
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Speaker 3: the Senate when the senate's in session. And in the
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Speaker 3: last four years under Joe Biden, the violence in DC
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Speaker 3: has gotten much worse. We've seen rand Paul had a
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Speaker 3: staffer who was stabbed on a public street at like
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Speaker 3: four in the afternoon, stabbed in the gut. There was
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Speaker 3: a guy who served in the first Trump administration who
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Speaker 3: was shot in the head. It killed at about five
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Speaker 3: pmsitting in his car on a street in d C.
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Speaker 3: This is not two in the morning in a rough neighborhood.
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Speaker 3: This is in a major metropolitan street. We had, you know,
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Speaker 3: not long ago, we had to Israelis murdered by a
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Speaker 3: radical Prohamas pro Palestinian leftist zealot from Chicago and d C.
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Speaker 3: As someone who works there. You know, it used to
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Speaker 3: be when when I started in the Senate, You know,
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Speaker 3: I would as you know, I love movies. We've done
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Speaker 3: a couple of podcasts where we talk about movies. When
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Speaker 3: I started in the Senate, I used to sometimes if
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Speaker 3: there was a night that I was done, Let's say
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Speaker 3: I was done at eight or nine o'clock at night.
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Speaker 3: There's a movie theater about five blocks from my house.
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Speaker 3: I used to routinely walk up to the movie theater
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Speaker 3: and just go see a movie.
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Speaker 4: I don't do that now. I mean, frankly, at nine.
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Speaker 2: O'clock at night, I know it's movie theater talking about Yeah,
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Speaker 2: no way you do that now at.
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Speaker 3: Nine o'clock at night, you don't walk five blocks in
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Speaker 3: d C. I'll tell you, I've got a guy in
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Speaker 3: my security d tail uh in in Washington who's a
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Speaker 3: tough guy. He's he's he's been in some some some
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Speaker 3: pretty rough combat situations.
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Speaker 4: You you bet him.
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Speaker 3: And and uh he was walking back to the Capitol
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Speaker 3: at ten pm and he had two guys, two teenagers,
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Speaker 3: jump him and try to rob him. Now, now, Mark's
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Speaker 3: a pretty tough guy. So he picked picked up one
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Speaker 3: of them and body slammed them into the back of
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Speaker 3: a car and the two of them ran off. But
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Speaker 3: the violence in d C has gotten really significantly worse.
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Speaker 3: And and you know, it's been interesting.
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Speaker 1: The reporters that are chairman what he said about it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the reporters that are honest, who are interviewing d
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Speaker 3: C residents, many of whom most of whom are African American.
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Speaker 3: The residents are saying, thank god, we think this is great.
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Speaker 3: Lock these criminals up. Look, the DC residents don't like
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Speaker 3: living with the risk of drive by sittings. Henry Quayar,
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Speaker 3: who is a Democrat congressman, was carjacked again in the
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Speaker 3: earth early evening. He was coming home with dinner to
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Speaker 3: his apartment was apartment building. Apparently five other congressmen lived
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Speaker 3: in carjacked right out in the front of it. And
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Speaker 3: here's what Greg Pemberton. I want you to listen to
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Speaker 3: Greg Pemberton, who was the DC Police Union chairman, what
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Speaker 3: he said about the security of DC under Democrats.
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Speaker 4: Give a listen.
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Speaker 5: The criminal justice system here in the District of Columbia
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Speaker 5: is broken. Every aspect of it is broken, whether that's policing, prosecution,
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Speaker 5: judges and trials, sentencing and supervision, all of it is broken.
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Speaker 5: And you can trace every aspect of it back to
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Speaker 5: a piece of legislation that was passed by the council.
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Speaker 5: They have destroyed policing, they have destroyed prosecutions, they have
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Speaker 5: destroyed the way that the courts are allowed to operate,
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Speaker 5: and they've destroyed our ability to sentence criminals to sentences
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Speaker 5: that are commensurate with the crimes they've committed. And so
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Speaker 5: the only way to fix this holistically is to go
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Speaker 5: back and look at all of this legislation that the
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Speaker 5: Council passed it back in twenty twenty when there was
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Speaker 5: all of this anti police rhetoric, and work to undo that.
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Speaker 5: I know from my experiences the DC Council will never
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Speaker 5: do that on their own. And so what we're hoping
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Speaker 5: over the course of the next thirty days is that
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Speaker 5: whether that's the White House, whether that's these federal law
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Speaker 5: enforcement agencies, whether that's Congress, that people get an insight
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Speaker 5: into exactly how the system got so broken, because the
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Speaker 5: only way to fix it is if we can get
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Speaker 5: rid of that legislation. And my main concern is that
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Speaker 5: thirty days are going to go by, all of these
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Speaker 5: folks are going to go up about their merry way
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Speaker 5: and we're still going to be stuck with all this
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Speaker 5: bad law.
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Speaker 1: Like He's like, we know it's wrong, we know it's wrong.
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Speaker 2: We know exactly what's wrong, and if they don't fix it,
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Speaker 2: we're going to be back here. Thank good as the
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Speaker 2: President stepped in here and the citizens. I go back
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Speaker 2: to the media narrative here center, the citizens overwhelmingly trust
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Speaker 2: Donald Trump to fight crime more than they trusted Joe Biden.
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Speaker 2: And the citizens in Washington, DC overwhelmingly or trusting the
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Speaker 2: strategy of Donald Trump then their own city council members
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Speaker 2: and their mayor. And that is a threat, I think
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Speaker 2: to all these other high crime cities. Memphis Baltimore, Detroit,
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Speaker 2: New Orleans, San Francisco, LA. Because, yeah, if this works,
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Speaker 2: how do you then say no when the president offers
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Speaker 2: you help or national guard?
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Speaker 3: So understand, this is the same principle with securing the border.
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Speaker 3: So a year ago, at the State of the Union address,
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Speaker 3: Joe Biden said he could not secure the border. He
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Speaker 3: needed new legislation from Congress in order to secure the border.
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Speaker 3: We had at the time the highest rate of illegal
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Speaker 3: immigration in our nation's history. We had criminals and murderers
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Speaker 3: and gang members and rapists and child molesters and terrorists
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Speaker 3: streaming across the border. And he said he was helpless
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Speaker 3: to fix it. Donald Trump came in and the rate
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Speaker 3: of illegal border crossings dropped over ninety nine percent. As
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Speaker 3: President Trump said in the most recent State of the
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Speaker 3: Union address, it turns out we didn't need new legislation,
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Speaker 3: We just needed a new president. The same is true
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Speaker 3: in DC. If we see violent crime numbers continue to
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Speaker 3: go down and stay down, that demonstrates we can solve
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Speaker 3: crime in other cities too. And the reason residents of
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Speaker 3: your city are being murdered is because the Democrat mayors
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Speaker 3: and the Democrat city councils care more about the radical
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Speaker 3: leftists who hate the police, who want to defund the police,
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Speaker 3: who want abolish the police, than they care about your
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Speaker 3: family and your children. Look at spoke volumes when China's
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Speaker 3: president she came to visit San Francisco a few years ago,
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Speaker 3: and Gavin Newsoen came in and cleaned up San Francisco
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Speaker 3: and took out the homeless people and took out the
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Speaker 3: drug addicts, and the.
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Speaker 4: Streets were sparkling.
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Speaker 3: And I got to say, even if you are a
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Speaker 3: left wing Bolshevik in San Francisco, a tiny voice in
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Speaker 3: the back of your head must have said, wait a second,
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Speaker 3: if they could clean up the streets today, why didn't
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Speaker 3: they clean up the streets last week? Why do my
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Speaker 3: kids matter less than the president of China? And so
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Speaker 3: this is an existential threat to Democrats who want to
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Speaker 3: say we're helpless, we can't stop crime. And by the way,
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Speaker 3: part of their message is the only way to stop
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Speaker 3: crime is to disarm law abiding citizens. That gun control
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Speaker 3: doesn't solve it, but locking up violent criminals does, and
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Speaker 3: spoiler alert, that is what works in stopping violent crime.
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Speaker 3: Then the Democrats have a massive challenge. And I want
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Speaker 3: you to Listen to Caroline Levitt talking about some of
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Speaker 3: the results we've seen in just one week in DC.
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Speaker 4: Give a listen.
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Speaker 6: President Trump's efforts to make DC safe again are working.
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Speaker 6: There have been a total of four hundred and sixty
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Speaker 6: five arrests since the start of this operation on Thursday,
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Speaker 6: August seventh. Last night, there were a total of fifty
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Speaker 6: two arrests, including the arrest of an illegal alien MS
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Speaker 6: thirteen gang member with convictions for DWI and drug possession.
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Speaker 6: Thanks to President Trump's leadership in the outstanding work of
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Speaker 6: both federal and local law enforcement, dangerous gang members like
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Speaker 6: the one picked up last night will not be allowed
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Speaker 6: on the streets of our nation's capital. Other arrests last
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Speaker 6: night included assault with a deadly weapon for stabbing, parole
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Speaker 6: violation for robbery murder, outstanding warrant for attempted murder, assault
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Speaker 6: on federal law enforcement officer, and felony assault. Four more
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Speaker 6: homeless encampments were also removed during yesterday's reporting period. To date,
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Speaker 6: a total of forty eight homeless encampments have been cleared
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Speaker 6: in Washington, d C. By multi agency teams. MPD patrol
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Speaker 6: units are actively working with city officials to locate in
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Speaker 6: clear additional encampments and remove homeless residents off of Washington streets.
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Speaker 6: And despite fake narratives from the media, again, a significant
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Speaker 6: number of the arrests have been in high crime areas
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Speaker 6: of DC. In fact, nearly half of all of the
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Speaker 6: non illegal alien related arrests have occurred in Wards seven
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Speaker 6: and eight, the two wards that have the highest number
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Speaker 6: of violent crime as well as homicides and assaults with
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Speaker 6: dangerous weapons last year. So while Democrats continue to caddle
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Speaker 6: violent criminals, President Trump and this administration are focused on
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Speaker 6: putting them behind bars and unapologetically standing up for the
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Speaker 6: safety of law abiding American citizens. And the White House
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Speaker 6: will continue to provide all of you with the results
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Speaker 6: of this operation in the days ahead.
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Speaker 2: By the way, this goes back to the narrative. When
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Speaker 2: this was announced, the President was going to do this.
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Speaker 2: That night, I was doing Abby's Phillips show on CNN
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Speaker 2: and all of the panelists are losing their minds, saying,
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Speaker 2: Donald Trump, this was going to do nothing. They said,
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Speaker 2: He's putting them on the National Mall where there's no crime.
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Speaker 2: He's a dictator. They're not going to put the law
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Speaker 2: enforce it where the real crime is. That's why this
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Speaker 2: is a waste of resources. This is just him showing
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Speaker 2: and flexing his muscles that he can do this because
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Speaker 2: the present and this is what a dictator does.
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Speaker 1: Yet you're the crime sat there.
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Speaker 2: Where are they fighting crime where the criminals are?
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Speaker 1: And I said it, then I'll say it again.
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Speaker 2: It's amazing how much the left and the media hates
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Speaker 2: Donald Trump so much. They don't even care if they're
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Speaker 2: able to save lives through this. They just hate the
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Speaker 2: fact that Donald Trump wants to fight crime. So whatever
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Speaker 2: he says he wants to do, we're going to fight
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Speaker 2: it and lie and slander him. And regardless of how
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Speaker 2: many people lose their lives in DC or any other
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Speaker 2: city when this comes out.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, look, that is exactly right. And I will point
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Speaker 3: out those very high crime neighborhoods in DC are overwhelmingly
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Speaker 3: African American and the woke left wing Democrat mayor painted
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Speaker 3: the words black Lives matter on the street at a
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Speaker 3: giant mural. They've removed that now, But when it comes
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Speaker 3: to actually protecting black lives, understand that a very significant
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Speaker 3: percentage of the murder victims from these violent criminals are
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Speaker 3: African Americans, and so Donald Trump and Republicans are stepping
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Speaker 3: in and saving black lives, and the position of Democrats
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Speaker 3: in the media is those black lives lives do not matter.
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Speaker 3: They'd rather they be victims of murder than actually have
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Speaker 3: law enforcement put violent.
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Speaker 4: Criminals in jail.
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Speaker 3: And Ben when I say that, that sounds unbelievably harsh,
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Speaker 3: but I want to ask you seriously, give me an
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Speaker 3: alternative explanation. If the explanation is not sure that the
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Speaker 3: Democrats do not give a damn about whether black lives
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Speaker 3: matter and whether they're saving African Americans from being victims
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Speaker 3: of homicide, then why are they so adamantly opposed to
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Speaker 3: supporting law enforcement putting violent criminals in jail.
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: No, this is the Democratic Party now.
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Speaker 2: They'd rather see Donald Trump fail than actually save American lives.
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Speaker 2: Also, this episode is up on YouTube, so if you
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Speaker 2: We're going to keep giving you the stats out of
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Speaker 2: DC because I promise you the media is not going
22:57
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Speaker 2: and the Senator and I will see you back here
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Speaker 2: on Friday morning.
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Speaker 1: As before.
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Speaker 2: If you want to hear the rest of this conversation
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Speaker 2: on this topic, you can go back and down the
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Speaker 2: podcast from earlier this week to hear the entire thing.
23:15
Speaker 2: I want to get back to the big story number
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Speaker 2: three of the week. You may have missed one other
23:20
Speaker 2: big story we got to get in here, Senator, is
23:22
Speaker 2: Biden's auto pen. We've got a new big update on
23:25
Speaker 2: this story. And apparently Joe Biden deliberately ignored his own
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Speaker 2: Department of Justice's warnings over legally flawed autopen pardons. And
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Speaker 2: we also found out about how many pardons they were
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Speaker 2: giving out, and they claimed from the White House podium
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Speaker 2: that these are all non violent offenders.
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Speaker 1: That was also a huge lie.
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Speaker 3: Well that's right, and I will say this is the
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Speaker 3: sort of story why we do Verdict as a podcast,
23:54
Speaker 3: why we do it as a radio show, because this
23:56
Speaker 3: is the kind of story you will never see on CNN.
23:58
Speaker 3: You won't see it on MSNBC or ABCNBCCBS, it will
24:02
Speaker 3: not be covered by the corporate media because it is inconvenient.
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Speaker 3: We have talked about at length the problems with Joe
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Speaker 3: Biden's autopen that the president does not have the authority
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Speaker 3: to delegate presidential power to another staff member. And when
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Speaker 3: it comes to an autopen, the critical question whether a
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Speaker 3: statute sign in law by an autopen, an executive order
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Speaker 3: signed by an autopen, or a pardoner commutation signed by
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Speaker 3: an autopen. The critical question for whether it is legally
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Speaker 3: valid is whether the President personally and directly authorized it,
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Speaker 3: whether the President made the decision. If it's a staffer
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Speaker 3: who made the decision, it is not valid and it
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Speaker 3: is legally void. Well, what broke it is recently is
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Speaker 3: this week, is is that at the time that Joe
24:43
Speaker 3: Biden was using the autopen, or rather the White House
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Speaker 3: staffers were using the autopen, a senior career staffer in
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Speaker 3: the Biden Department of Justice was raising real legal questions
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Speaker 3: about it. Here's the story on Fox News headline Biden's
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Speaker 3: autopen pardons disturbed DOJ brass Stock show raising questions whether
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Speaker 3: they are legally binding. New documents and communications between Biden
25:05
Speaker 3: White House staff and career officials of the Justice Department
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Speaker 3: prompted scrutiny of the legality of former President Joe Biden's
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Speaker 3: thousands of last minute pardons. The Oversight Project shared documents
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Speaker 3: obtained from the Trump DOJ with Fox News Digital showing
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Speaker 3: that a career prosecutor warned Biden's inner circle that the
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Speaker 3: administration's pardon process was unorthodox and legally troubling. In the
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Speaker 3: most scrutinized email, then Assistant Deputy Attorney General Bradley Weinsheimer
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Speaker 3: wrote a group email to several Executive Office staff members
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Speaker 3: on January eighteenth, asking questions about the more than two
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Speaker 3: thy five hundred pardons.
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Speaker 4: Quote.
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Speaker 3: The White House has described those who received commutations as
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Speaker 3: people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses. I think you should
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Speaker 3: stop saying that because it is untre true or at
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Speaker 3: least misleading. That's what DOJ said to the Biden White House.
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Speaker 3: Mind you, they didn't stop it. They continued to be
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Speaker 3: untrue and misleading. He continued. Quote, as you know, even
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Speaker 3: with the exceedingly limited review we were permitted to do,
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Speaker 3: of the individuals we believed you might be considering for
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Speaker 3: commutation action, we initially identified nineteen that were highly problematic,
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Speaker 3: he continued. He cited convicts Terence Richardson and Faron Clayborne,
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Speaker 3: who were included in the clemency grants, and noted that
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Speaker 3: the DOJ received voluminous objections from the victims, families and
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Speaker 3: law enforcement as the men had been sentenced to life
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Speaker 3: imprisonment for drug trafficking offenses during which a police officer
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Speaker 3: was killed. Mind you, this is what the Biden White
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Speaker 3: House said was a non violent offense drug trafficking where
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Speaker 3: a police officer was killed. And beyond that, according to
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Speaker 3: Oversight Project Vice president Kyle Brosnan, shows that DOJ was
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Speaker 3: concerned about the quote vague construct of Biden's pardons and
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Speaker 3: how they appeared to be quote illegally delegated to staff.
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Speaker 3: That left the DOJ wondering at times which offenses for
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Speaker 3: people with multiple convictions were specifically being expunged. Later in
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Speaker 3: the email, he was like, quote look, I read the
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Speaker 3: statement you put out in the President's name saying you've
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Speaker 3: released a bunch of nonviolent drug offenders. You've got murderers
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Speaker 3: on your list today. So I'm trying to figure out
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Speaker 3: what the president wants here for this funky warrant.
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Speaker 2: That is incredible, isn't it. I mean funky warrant and
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Speaker 2: that's coming again. From his own DOJ saying we don't
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Speaker 2: know what he wants, we don't know what he's doing.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't make sense.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, this is the Biden DOJ.
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Speaker 3: Weinsheimer continued, quote, I think it is best that we
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Speaker 3: receive a statement or direction from the President as to
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Speaker 3: the meaning of the warrant language that will allow us
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Speaker 3: to give full effect to the commutation warrant in the
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Speaker 3: manner intended by the president. And there was ultimate no
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Speaker 3: explanation for what the offenses or the proverbial descriptions were,
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Speaker 3: according to the document tronch, and instead there was simply
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Speaker 3: a spreadsheet of convicts attached to one of the emails
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Speaker 3: that came from the US Sentencing Commission. But only the
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Speaker 3: president has the power to grant pardons, not the Sentencing Commission.
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Speaker 3: Treating it otherwise would be an illegal delegation of presidential authority.
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Speaker 2: When you look at this, what does this mean moving
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Speaker 2: forward for the investigation into the president's use the autopen
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Speaker 2: and many things he may have signed that he didn't
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Speaker 2: know about. Right, this was just anybody at the White
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Speaker 2: House pretty much that had any type of power can
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Speaker 2: just walk in there and get things done.
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Speaker 1: And what does this mean?
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Speaker 2: For all of the they claimed non violent offenders that
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Speaker 2: they were pardoning.
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Speaker 1: We've also found out a bunch of them that was
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Speaker 1: very violent. It was a lie.
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Speaker 3: It was a lie. They knew it was a lie.
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Speaker 3: Their own Department of Justice told them it was a lie.
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Speaker 3: Didn't care it was a lie. They continued lying to
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Speaker 3: the American people. They knew that the New York Times
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Speaker 3: would never call them out. They knew that the corrupt
29:06
Speaker 3: media would never call them out, so they could lie
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Speaker 3: and lie and lie and know that nobody would know
29:11
Speaker 3: about it. And as a legal matter, the Brasnan from
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Speaker 3: the Oversight Project said, quote Biden did not pardon individual people,
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Speaker 3: but laid out categories of types of people to release
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Speaker 3: and left it to staff to figure out who meets
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Speaker 3: that criteria. Attorney Sam Dewey told Fox News Digital that quote, literally,
29:31
Speaker 3: no one, including DOJ officials, understands what the aforementioned pardon
29:36
Speaker 3: criteria are. And he continued, quote, you generally don't see
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Speaker 3: people write emails like this. This isn't a cya. This
29:46
Speaker 3: is I'm going to do a ponscious pilot routine because
29:49
Speaker 3: this is a drug deal and I want to make
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Speaker 3: sure it doesn't come back on me. And the consequence
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Speaker 3: of that it is that the pardon, if they were
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Speaker 3: not authorized by the President of the United States, they
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Speaker 3: are invalid. And so what I have verged the White
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Speaker 3: House to do, what I've verged the Department of Justice
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Speaker 3: to do, is to go through the records of everything
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Speaker 3: that was autopenned and determine there may be some The
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Speaker 3: President does have the authority to direct someone to autopen
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Speaker 3: something that he's signing, whether a law or an executive
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Speaker 3: order or a pardon, and if it's the president who's
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Speaker 3: making the decision, the prevailing the Department of Justice interpretation
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Speaker 3: is that is legal in binding. But if the President
30:31
Speaker 3: didn't make the decision, if it's a staffer who's making
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Speaker 3: the decision, then it has no binding force. And so
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Speaker 3: what I've encouraged both the White House and Department of
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Speaker 3: Justice is to find those pardons, those executive orders, those
30:43
Speaker 3: statutes that were autopen for which there is a clear
30:46
Speaker 3: lack of evidence that Joe Biden had awareness of it,
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Speaker 3: made a decision about it, and then formulate and carry
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Speaker 3: out a legal strategy to challenge and end up concluding
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Speaker 3: that those statutes, executive order pardons and commutations are invalid.
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Speaker 3: I think the possibility of a legal determination of that
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Speaker 3: is rising significantly. And the fact that you had senior
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Speaker 3: career DOJ officials in the Biden administration ringing the alarm
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Speaker 3: bells and saying you're lying to the American people and
31:16
Speaker 3: what you're doing is lawless, that is yet another stunning
31:19
Speaker 3: revelation that has come out this week.
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