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Trump goes Scorched Earth Sending the Worst Illegals to Gitmo · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: I'm going to start at the show with some really
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Speaker 1: good news. Border apprehensions have plummeted as the Trump effect
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Speaker 1: is setting in. Just in office for a little over
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Speaker 1: a week, and we're now learning that in the Del
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Speaker 1: Rio Border Patrol sector, once one of the busiest regions
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Speaker 1: for illegal border crossings in all of Texas, migrant apprehensions
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Speaker 1: have dropped nearly forty percent in the first full week
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Speaker 1: of the Trump presidency. The drop has been known across
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Speaker 1: the southwest border as enhanced immigration operations promised by Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump on the campaign are now taking shape now. According
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Speaker 1: to Border Patrol, the number of suspected goudaways in the
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Speaker 1: Del Rio sector has also plummeted, dropping by more than
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Speaker 1: sixty percent from two hundred and twenty nine to eighty
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Speaker 1: two during the post inauguration week. In the Texas Rio
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Speaker 1: Grand Valley, daily migrant apprehensions during the week before the
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Speaker 1: inauguration fell to just two hundred and eleven compared to
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Speaker 1: one thousand, one hundred and fifty four over the same period.
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Speaker 1: One week before the inauguration, known migrant gotaways for the
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Speaker 1: border region dropped by nearly forty percent, from seventy five
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Speaker 1: to forty six according to the Border Patrol's numbers they
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Speaker 1: have released as border patrol agents are now quote transitioning
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Speaker 1: from processing and releasing migrants into the United States to
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Speaker 1: arresting and removing the migrants upon entry. In most cases,
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Speaker 1: there is a massive difference that can be noted in
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Speaker 1: other border states as well. In California, the San Diego
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Speaker 1: sector of the Border Patrol is now moving migrants laterally
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Speaker 1: via military aircraft to different parts of the border for
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Speaker 1: repatriation rather than allowing the wide scale release of the
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Speaker 1: migrants has occurred during the four years of the Biden
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Speaker 1: and Harris administration. Another report from the US US Customs
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Speaker 1: and Border Protection showed nearly seven hundred migrants from the
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Speaker 1: People's Republic of China the CRP were apprehended in San
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Speaker 1: Diego region in just one week in April of twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty four. Most were released into the United States to
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Speaker 1: pursue asylum claims. Now, according to a source within the
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Speaker 1: Customs and Border Patrol, Chinese migrants are being sent back
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Speaker 1: to Mexico at the time of apprehension. In Tucson, Arizona,
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Speaker 1: Border Patrol agents there are grinning from ear to ear
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Speaker 1: because they're actually able to do their jobs with one
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Speaker 1: of the border units there and the Foreign Operations Branch
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Speaker 1: discovered and dismantled a scout site camp used by transnational
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Speaker 1: criminal organizations that was not allowed to be shut down
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Speaker 1: during the Biden and Harris regime. The bi national operation
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Speaker 1: resulted in the eradication of the site, the arrest of
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Speaker 1: several cartel members, and the recovery of a significant amount
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Speaker 1: of surveillance equipment use to assist the cartels in moving
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Speaker 1: narcotics and human trafficking across the remote border. Now, the
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Speaker 1: reduction in border crossings in that region affords agents now
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Speaker 1: the opportunity to increase field patrols, which were virtually nonexistent
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Speaker 1: under the Biden Hairris regime, into remote areas that remain
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Speaker 1: void of border patrol presence during the entire administration of
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Speaker 1: Biden Harris. So these quote remote areas they knew was
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Speaker 1: wide open. Go ahead, come on across whenever you want to.
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Speaker 1: No one's watching, no one's patrolling, no one is going
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Speaker 1: to stop you.
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Speaker 2: Just come across the border.
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Speaker 1: When you think about that, and now all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: they are actually able to do their jobs. What this
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Speaker 1: means for border patrol agents is they're finally on offense now.
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Speaker 1: A likely contributor to the drop in border crossings is
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Speaker 1: the imagery of mass deportation operations is circulating the media. Domestically,
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Speaker 1: this story is exploding and internationally.
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Speaker 2: On Monday, Immigration and.
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Speaker 1: Customs Enforcement reported its largest single day migrant apprehensions under
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Speaker 1: the mass deportation plan announced by Donald Trump. During the
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Speaker 1: multi state operation, nearly one thousand violent illegal immigrants were caught, apprehended,
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Speaker 1: and now they are being processed, many of them already
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Speaker 1: out of the United States of America. In one immigration raid,
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Speaker 1: for example, not by the border, but in Colorado, agents
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Speaker 1: assigned to the Denver offices of the Drug Enforcement Administration
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Speaker 1: also known as the DEA, the Denver Immigration and Customs
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Speaker 1: Enforcement ICE, and the Denver Alcohol Tobacco, firearms and Explosives
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Speaker 1: atf Approximately fifty hardcore cartel and gang members that are
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Speaker 1: in the country illegally were arrested in the Denver metro area.
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Speaker 1: Several migrants arrest during the raid are suspected of being
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Speaker 1: associated with the violent Venezuelan gang, the same gang that
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Speaker 1: took over the apartment complexes in Aurora. We also have
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Speaker 1: gotten word now that Donald Trump has said to target
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Speaker 1: that area and to make sure that those cartel members
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Speaker 1: never are able to take over buildings and run their
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Speaker 1: organization like they've been doing in Colorado now. Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: also took another major step at the White House, signing
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Speaker 1: the Lake and Riley Act into law, and he had
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Speaker 1: some very blunt things to say about the Biden administration
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Speaker 1: as they've betrayed the American people, specifically Angel families, people
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Speaker 1: who've lost loved ones to illegal immigrants. I want you
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Speaker 1: to hear what Donald Trump had to say.
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Speaker 3: And finally, I want to thank others who have also
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Speaker 3: suffered this horrible scorge that goes on with young people
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Speaker 3: being killed and other people too, but young people, largely
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Speaker 3: young people being killed. Thank you to Scott Route, the
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Speaker 3: father of Sarah Root, killed at twenty one years of age.
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Speaker 3: Think of that, twenty one by an illegal alien. Shouldn't
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Speaker 3: have been in our country, would have never been in
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Speaker 3: our country if we were here. What a sad thing
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Speaker 3: to each of these Angel families. We love you and
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Speaker 3: we stand in all of your courage and your strength.
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Speaker 3: It's the toughest thing anybody has to go through. Many
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Speaker 3: of the Angel families here today were betrayed by the
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Speaker 3: last administration and with this heartless and foolish and really
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Speaker 3: very very arrogant and very very dumb policies, policies that
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Speaker 3: aren't even believable. When you talk about common sense, I say,
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Speaker 3: we're a party of common sense. But the Democrats also,
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Speaker 3: they have plenty of common sense. And that's why so
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Speaker 3: many are here today, and so many supported what we're doing.
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Speaker 3: The very government that were supposed to protect their daughters
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Speaker 3: instead opened our borders and transported the world's most dangerous
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Speaker 3: criminals straight into their communities. They came from prisons, in
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Speaker 3: jails and insane asylums and mental institutions from all over
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Speaker 3: the world, not just South America people think South America.
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Speaker 2: They come from all over the world.
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Speaker 3: They come from every continent. And they came here by plane,
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Speaker 3: and they were loaded onto buses and they were driven
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Speaker 3: right up to our border, and they drove right through
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Speaker 3: the border, and nobody even said a word to them.
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Speaker 3: And in those buses and those cars and those trucks
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Speaker 3: were some of the meanest criminals anywhere in the world.
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Speaker 3: As of last September, four hundred and twenty five thousand
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Speaker 3: illegal alien criminals were roaming free, including thirteen thousand and
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Speaker 3: ninety nine convicted illegal alien murderers, of which about almost
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Speaker 3: fifty percent killed more than one person, and they were
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Speaker 3: roaming all over the country and our farms and our cities.
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Speaker 3: Under the Trump administration, we're moving with urgency and speed
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Speaker 3: to get these vicious and violent criminals that held out
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Speaker 3: of our country and to restore law and order to
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Speaker 3: our suburbs, our cities, and our towns. That we're going
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Speaker 3: to do it with Tom and with Christian, with all
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Speaker 3: of the people that are working so hard on this.
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Speaker 1: It is incredible to hear the President sit there with
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Speaker 1: these family members and make it clear that we are
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Speaker 1: going to do things differently. You will not be abandoned
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Speaker 1: by my administration. We will not allow this to happen.
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Speaker 1: We're not going to look the other way. We're not
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Speaker 1: going to give safe haven to so many illegal immigrants
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Speaker 1: in this country. This is exactly why he was elected,
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Speaker 1: and this is exactly why he is standing there right
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Speaker 1: now in the Oval Office at the White House having
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Speaker 1: these press con conferences and saying to the families, I've
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Speaker 1: got your back, and he's clearly backing it up.
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Speaker 2: Each and every day.
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump, by the way, wasn't done at his press
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Speaker 1: conference at the White House where he signed this Lake
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Speaker 1: and Riley Act, because he also made a new promise.
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump had a huge announcement through a new executive
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Speaker 1: order to prepare a thirty thousand person illegal immigrant facility.
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Speaker 1: And this is going to make liberals heads explode. At
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Speaker 1: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, take a listen.
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Speaker 3: Today, I'm also signing an executive order to instruct the
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Speaker 3: Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the
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Speaker 3: thirty thousand person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay. Most people
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Speaker 3: don't even know about it. We have thirty thousand beds
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Speaker 3: in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening
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Speaker 3: the American people. Some of them are so bad we
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Speaker 3: don't even trust the countries to hold them because we
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Speaker 3: don't want them coming back. So we're going to send
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Speaker 3: them out to Guantanamo. This will double our capacity immediately,
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Speaker 3: right and tough. That's a tough that's a tough place
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Speaker 3: to get out of. Today's signings bring us one step
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Speaker 3: closer to eradicating the scorge of migrant crime in our
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Speaker 3: communities once and for all. And it was just a purely.
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Speaker 3: It's just an unforced era that we even have to
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Speaker 3: be doing this now. We need Congress to provide full
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Speaker 3: funding for the complete and total restoration of our sovereign borders,
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Speaker 3: as well as financial support to remove record numbers of
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Speaker 3: illegal aliens.
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Speaker 1: This is Fire signing executive order instructing the Department of
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Speaker 1: Defense and the Home and Security to begin preparing for
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Speaker 1: thirty thousand person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay.
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Speaker 2: Not only is he sending a message.
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Speaker 1: That we're not going to get rid of Guantanamo Bay,
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Speaker 1: but he's also sending a message that we're going to
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Speaker 1: send the worst there. And if you think we're not,
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Speaker 1: then you're not paying attention now. Donald Trump also talked
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Speaker 1: about government spending as he was talking about people saying, well,
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Speaker 1: how are you going to afford this? How are you
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Speaker 1: going to get rid of all the illegal immigrants? How
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Speaker 1: are you going to pay these bills for all these
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Speaker 1: ice rates? How are you going to do Guantanamo Bay? Right,
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Speaker 1: that's one of the liberal things that they bring up.
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Speaker 1: He said, yeah, not a problem.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: In fact, let me detail some of the wastefol spending
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Speaker 1: cuts that I'm getting rid of. As the president said,
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Speaker 1: and look how much money we have to then protect
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Speaker 1: the southern border.
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Speaker 3: We identified and stopped fifty million dollars being sent to
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Speaker 3: Gaza to buy condom for Hamas fifty image and you
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Speaker 3: know what's happened to them. They've used them as a
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Speaker 3: method of making bombs. How about that we stopped an
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Speaker 3: attempt to make an illicit payment for illegal alien resettlement.
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Speaker 3: We canceled one hundred and eighty one million dollars in
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Speaker 3: DEI training contracts. This is just for the training of
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Speaker 3: people in Dei, which has been terminated and completely terminated.
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Speaker 3: And we paused one point seven billion dollars in unauthorized
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Speaker 3: payments to foreign organizations, including stopping more than forty million
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Speaker 3: dollars that was on its way out the door to
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Speaker 3: the very corrupt World Health Organization, which has not done
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Speaker 3: its job and not done it properly. We also we
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Speaker 3: also blocked forty five million dollars for diversity scholarships in Burma.
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Speaker 3: Forty five that's a lot of money for diversity scholarships
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Speaker 3: in Burma. You can imagine where that money went. These
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Speaker 3: were the types of payments and many others. I could
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Speaker 3: stand here all day and tell you things that we found,
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Speaker 3: and we have to find them quickly because we were
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Speaker 3: the money to flow to proper places.
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Speaker 1: Want the money to flow to proper places. You go
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Speaker 1: back and look at what the president's doing, and he's
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Speaker 1: completely overhauling our government system. He's saying, I'm going to
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Speaker 1: get rid of these former administration hires. Look at the
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Speaker 1: person for a senior health and Human services position demanded,
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Speaker 1: we recognize him as a woman. We're referring to real
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Speaker 1: women as chest feeders and birthing people. This is just
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Speaker 1: one of the many examples of why so many Americans
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Speaker 1: lost trust in our government, lost trust in public health
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Speaker 1: officials because you got dudes dressed like chicks who refer
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Speaker 1: to real women as chess feeders and birthing people. These
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Speaker 1: are the types of things that Donald Trump inherited. These
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Speaker 1: are the types of things that Donald Trump is going
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Speaker 1: to stand here and say, hey, I want to make
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Speaker 1: it very clear, we're going to start saving the American
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Speaker 1: people money and we're not going to sit here and
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Speaker 1: allow you might be used for condoms to terrace or
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Speaker 1: funding for DEI programs. He also, by the way, came
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Speaker 1: out We talked about this yesterday and now the courts
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Speaker 1: are back and forth on this, but it was a
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Speaker 1: clear point where he said, hey, I'm going to stop
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Speaker 1: you know a lot of different funding issues, and it's
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Speaker 1: going to save Americans money until we figure out if
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Speaker 1: these funding projects of our government actually aligned with our values,
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Speaker 1: our administration's values.
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Speaker 2: And what did the media do.
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Speaker 1: They came out and they line, they lied, They straight
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Speaker 1: up lied to the American people. Caroline Levitt, the new
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Speaker 1: White House Press secretary, shut down one of the big
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Speaker 1: lies that had been going for about twenty hours on
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Speaker 1: the issue of Donald Trump ending Medicaid payments. Never happened.
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Speaker 1: Wasn't ordered by Trump yesterday, and this is what she
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Speaker 1: said at the press gaggle today at the White House.
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Speaker 2: That's why the Q and A was.
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Speaker 4: Released so that there is no confusion. There's no confusion
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Speaker 4: within this building. I know there is again a lot
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Speaker 4: amongst the media and those who I don't seem to
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Speaker 4: just be able to read a memo and take it
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Speaker 4: for what it is.
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Speaker 2: It's very clear this is a temporary pause.
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Speaker 4: On federal funding to ensure that tax dollars are not
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Speaker 4: funding things that this president has signed out of law.
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Speaker 4: So the Green New Deal, DEI et cetera. As I
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Speaker 4: said repeatedly yesterday, and I would like to double down
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Speaker 4: on the fact that Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, which I'd
14:16
Speaker 4: like to be clear on that today welfare benefits, individual assistance,
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Speaker 4: food stamps, et cetera, will not be impacted. So the
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Speaker 4: American people should not be confused about this, and in fact,
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Speaker 4: they should be grateful that this administration is actually valuing
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Speaker 4: their harder text dollars.
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Speaker 1: The American people should be thankful and grateful that we
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Speaker 1: have a present that is valuing their hard earned tax dollars.
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Speaker 1: What a novel idea. You look at all of the
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Speaker 1: different lies that are out there. And the White House
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Speaker 1: is also using a new strategy right now, the White House,
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Speaker 1: and I love what they're doing. The White House is
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Speaker 1: now issuing press releases debunking the latest fake news hoaxes
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Speaker 1: coming from the White House media core that is following them,
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Speaker 1: and just line, let me give you an example of that.
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Speaker 1: The White House put out a press release yesterday and
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Speaker 1: it was titled debunking the latest fake news Hoaxes.
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Speaker 2: President Donald J.
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Speaker 1: Trump has been subjected to more manufactured fake news hoaxes
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Speaker 1: than any present history, and it hasn't gotten any better
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Speaker 1: in his second term. Here are just a few. They
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Speaker 1: then put out hoax number one. Senator Chris Murphy and
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Speaker 1: Representative Jasmine Crockett and media outlets claim President Trump as
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Speaker 1: a directive to pause radical, wasteful government spending means an
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Speaker 1: end to medicate food stamps, food assistants, and other individual
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Speaker 1: assistants programs.
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Speaker 2: That is what they said.
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Speaker 1: The fact is this individual federal assistance programs such as Snap, Medicare,
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Speaker 1: Medicaid and other important programs are explicitly excluded and was
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Speaker 1: made clear by pres Secretary Caroline Levitt and a memo
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Speaker 1: from the Office of.
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Speaker 2: Management and Budget.
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Speaker 1: Only unnecessary spending such as DEI, the Green new scam,
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Speaker 1: and funding non governmental organizations that undermine the national interest
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Speaker 1: are included in President Trump's new directive. They also went
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Speaker 1: on to say this there was another hoax by Governor Pritzker,
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Speaker 1: a Democrat Illinois, and the Chicago Public School officials claiming
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Speaker 1: without bothering to verify that ICE agents had conducted a
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Speaker 1: raid at a local elementary school, a false claim echoed
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Speaker 1: by media outlets including and they call it by name,
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Speaker 1: the Chicago Tribune. The fact was it was actually the
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Speaker 1: US Secret Service investigating a threat unrelated to the issue
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Speaker 1: of immigration. They put out another hoax, saying a physician's
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Speaker 1: advocacy group was widely cited over the last twenty four
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Speaker 1: hours opposing President Donald Trump's nominee of RFK Junior to
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Speaker 1: lead the Department of Health and Human Services. They then
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Speaker 1: say this, the fact is to quote the advocacy group
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Speaker 1: is an astro partisan organization funded by prominent left wing
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Speaker 1: donors and accepts fake signatures with links them being busted
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Speaker 1: for exactly that. This is how they have to fight
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Speaker 1: back this time. There's no other way to do it.
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Speaker 1: This is the way that you fight back. And what
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Speaker 1: the White House Press Corps is doing. And it was
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Speaker 1: an interesting moment where the White House pre Secretary said, Yay,
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Speaker 1: you may be wondering why Gaza would need fifty million
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Speaker 1: worth of condoms. It's because the condoms are used as
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Speaker 1: weapons to fly explosives into Israel. Biden was going to
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Speaker 1: fund terrorism and the Trump administration clearly said, hey, we're
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Speaker 1: not going to allow this might to be spent because
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Speaker 1: that's what they're using the condoms on.
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Speaker 4: Dojanomb also found that there was about to be fifty
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Speaker 4: million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund
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Speaker 4: condoms in Gaza. That is a preposterous waste of taxpayer money.
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Speaker 4: So that's what this pause is.
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Speaker 1: By the way, she's right, and if you pull the
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Speaker 1: America people, the American people would agree there's no reason
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Speaker 1: to send fifty million dollars or the condoms to Gaza
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Speaker 1: where terrorists are actually using those condoms to fly explosives
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Speaker 1: into Israel. Donald Trump again, and this is part of
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Speaker 1: what I think is going to make this administration so
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Speaker 1: different than the last time, is saying I am stopping
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Speaker 1: what I now see as a major threat to this
18:25
Speaker 1: country's security. It's safety, its stability, stopping the flow of
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Speaker 1: expenditures that are going to radical things. That list he
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Speaker 1: mentioned a minute ago, forty five million for diversity scholarships
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Speaker 1: in Burma, fifty million for condoms in Gaza, one hundred
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Speaker 1: and eighty one million for d DEI training contracts. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I want to know who those people were and how
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Speaker 1: much they got paid. One point seven billion in payments
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Speaker 1: to foreign organizations. One point seven billion, including forty million
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Speaker 1: going to the corrupt who. Now the White House is
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Speaker 1: saying they believe that many of these programs are nothing
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Speaker 1: more than money laundering, and that the American government has
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Speaker 1: been running the largest money laundering scheme in modern history
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Speaker 1: that is benefiting democrats and democratic ideology exclusively. There's no
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Speaker 1: way they can they really plan to spend forty five
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Speaker 1: million on diversity scholarships in Burma. Okay, if they did,
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Speaker 1: they're criminally stupid. That might be another way to put it.
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Speaker 1: This is why Elon Musk is such a threat to
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Speaker 1: the left. This is why DOE is such a threat,
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Speaker 1: because they're identifying all of this waste and they're putting
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Speaker 1: it to a stop to it. You know, halting USAID
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Speaker 1: grants is not radical when you see where the money
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Speaker 1: is actually going. The money is being laundered. You look
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Speaker 1: at all these DII placement and dollars. It's money laundering
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Speaker 1: to democrats so that they can do all of their
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Speaker 1: radical things. Let's go back to the Panama Canal for
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Speaker 1: a second. President Trump is one hundred percent right to
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Speaker 1: raise the alarm about the Panama Canal. China has a
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Speaker 1: very significant position in Panama. It's a serious national security threat.
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Speaker 1: Panama is charging American ships, including US Navy ship's exorbitant
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Speaker 1: prices to pass through the canal. It is something that
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Speaker 1: the US actually paid for, US built it. And the
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Speaker 1: Senate Commerce Committee is now investigating if Panama has broken
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Speaker 1: the treaty. CNBC taking notice of this this morning, having
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Speaker 1: on the Commerce Committe chairman, my good friend Ted Cruz,
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Speaker 1: and this is what he said on CNBC.
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Speaker 5: The Senate Commerce Committee is going to have a hearing
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Speaker 5: on the Panama Canal and the impoc packs on the
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Speaker 5: United States. I'll tell you, when President Trump first raised this,
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Speaker 5: a lot of people, particularly the media, scoffed. But I
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Speaker 5: think he raised two very serious issues. Which is number one,
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Speaker 5: as you noted, that China has a very significant position
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Speaker 5: in Panama. China has lease and has locations on both
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Speaker 5: ends of the Panama Canal that gives it observation and
21:10
Speaker 5: potentially control of the Panama Canal. Not only that, but
21:13
Speaker 5: China is building a bridge that goes over the Panama
21:16
Speaker 5: Canal that gives them the ability to shut down transit
21:19
Speaker 5: on the Panama Canal. That is a serious both economic
21:22
Speaker 5: threat and national security thread. And number two, the nation
21:26
Speaker 5: of Panama is charging very significant fees predominantly to the
21:30
Speaker 5: United States, both commercial shippers and to the US Navy
21:34
Speaker 5: when it transits that canal. And it's worth remembering the
21:38
Speaker 5: United States built that canal at the cost of over
21:41
Speaker 5: thirty thousand lives, at the cost of in today's dollars,
21:44
Speaker 5: fifteen trillion dollars. And when Jimmy Carter gave that canal away,
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Speaker 5: I got to tell you, I was a little kid,
21:51
Speaker 5: but I remember it was I think shocking at the time.
21:55
Speaker 5: But when he gave that canal away to Panama, he
21:58
Speaker 5: did so pursue it to a treaty that obligated Panama
22:02
Speaker 5: to treat the United States fairly. And so the hearing
22:04
Speaker 5: we're going to have tomorrow is going to be examining
22:07
Speaker 5: how much Panama is complying with the treaty or how
22:10
Speaker 5: much they are in violation of the treaty. And violating
22:13
Speaker 5: a treaty has as real consequences.
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Speaker 1: Violating the treaty has real consequences. Panama's broken the treaty.
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Speaker 1: That's what they're looking at. All the information looks to
22:24
Speaker 1: the idea and the fact that Panama has broken this treaty.
22:29
Speaker 1: We as Americans shouldn't be afraid to call them out
22:31
Speaker 1: on that. We as Americans should be terrified however that
22:35
Speaker 1: China is the one that's basically controlling the Panama Canal
22:38
Speaker 1: and that we are paying insane amounts of dollars to
22:43
Speaker 1: use something that we built. And so this is part
22:47
Speaker 1: of riding the ship. And the media is going to say, Oh,
22:50
Speaker 1: my gosh, Donald Trump's going to get into War three.
22:52
Speaker 2: That's what they'll say.
22:53
Speaker 1: They'll say something like that fifteen different times a day,
22:56
Speaker 1: just to fear monger you. They're going to say, oh,
22:58
Speaker 1: people aren't going to get their food stamps, which is
22:59
Speaker 1: a lot. They're gonna say, oh, people aren't gonna get
23:01
Speaker 1: Medicare medicaid, which is a lie. My phone blew up
23:05
Speaker 1: last night with people I know saying, Hey, my parents
23:08
Speaker 1: are really worried about this Medicare Medicaid. Is Donald Trump
23:11
Speaker 1: stupid enough to shut this down? He never ordered to
23:14
Speaker 1: shut it down. That's the reason why the White House
23:16
Speaker 1: came out the way they did and said what they said, like, Hey,
23:18
Speaker 1: we're not shutting any of this down. What we are
23:21
Speaker 1: doing is we're looking out there to see exactly where
23:25
Speaker 1: the money is going on a lot of different issues.
23:27
Speaker 1: Core issues are going to be okay.
23:28
Speaker 2: By the way.
23:29
Speaker 1: We may reform some of those, but we're not shutting
23:31
Speaker 1: those off. We're not shutting out down that are shutting
23:35
Speaker 1: off as it was described. You know, food stamps for
23:38
Speaker 1: moms that need it, Like, we're not doing that. That Again,
23:41
Speaker 1: that is part of this is that they're going to
23:45
Speaker 1: lie to you. I'll give you another example. RFK Junior
23:48
Speaker 1: was up for his confirmation hearing, and his confirmation hearing
23:55
Speaker 1: was one that you knew was going to be contentious.
23:57
Speaker 1: Democrats are wanting to destroy him because they see what
23:59
Speaker 1: a threat he is. Look, there's some things he said
24:02
Speaker 1: in the past that I don't like, but it doesn't
24:04
Speaker 1: mean you shouldn't get this job. And they were also
24:06
Speaker 1: protecting their interests with big Pharma. Give you a great example.
24:11
Speaker 1: Pocahontas Elizabeth Warren lost her ever loving mind today screaming
24:15
Speaker 1: at RFK Junior. Well, she is at the top of
24:19
Speaker 1: the list of those getting money from big Pharma. That
24:22
Speaker 1: is why she was screaming. Bernie Sanders gets a bunch
24:26
Speaker 1: of money from big Pharma. He was also screaming at
24:28
Speaker 1: RFK Junior. They want to have the people that give
24:32
Speaker 1: them money be able to do whatever they want to
24:34
Speaker 1: do in the future. Listen to Elizabeth Warren yelling at
24:37
Speaker 1: RFK this was one of those very telling moments. She
24:40
Speaker 1: has been bought and paid for by Big Pharma. She's
24:43
Speaker 1: either number one or number two when it comes to
24:47
Speaker 1: donations at the top of the list from Big Pharma
24:50
Speaker 1: and Capitol d in Washington, DC on Capitol Hill.
24:53
Speaker 6: So, mister Kennedy, will you also agree that you won't
24:57
Speaker 6: take any compensation from any lawsuits against drug companies while
25:04
Speaker 6: you are secretary and for four years afterwards.
25:09
Speaker 7: Well, I'll certainly commit.
25:12
Speaker 5: That.
25:12
Speaker 7: Well, I'm secretary, but I do want to clarify something
25:15
Speaker 7: because you're making these sound like a shall I put
25:21
Speaker 7: together that days I did the science a presentation of
25:26
Speaker 7: the judge on that case to get it into.
25:28
Speaker 6: Me for mister alberteering, Mister Kennedy is just a really
25:32
Speaker 6: simple question. Yeah, you've taken in two and a half
25:34
Speaker 6: million dollars. I want to know if you will commit
25:37
Speaker 6: right now that not only will you not go to
25:39
Speaker 6: work for drug companies, you won't go to work suing
25:43
Speaker 6: the drug companies and taking your rake out of that
25:47
Speaker 6: while you're a secretary and for four years after.
25:50
Speaker 7: It's just I'll commit it to not taking any fees
25:53
Speaker 7: from drug rug companies.
25:54
Speaker 6: Well, I'm Secretary, I I'm asking about fees from sue
26:00
Speaker 6: do drug companies? Will you agree not to do that?
26:03
Speaker 7: You're asking me to not sue drug companies, And I'm
26:06
Speaker 7: not going to agree to companies. As much as I want,
26:11
Speaker 7: I'm not going to agree to not sue drug companies
26:14
Speaker 7: or anybody.
26:15
Speaker 2: So, by the way, notice what she's doing.
26:17
Speaker 1: She's basically saying, I'm not gonna let you through, and
26:19
Speaker 1: I'm going to stop you if you sue drug companies,
26:21
Speaker 1: even if they commit crimes, even if they're committing crimes.
26:27
Speaker 1: This is insane. Why would you ever want someone to
26:30
Speaker 1: be in this situation. Why would you ever want that
26:33
Speaker 1: the man who's in charge of healthing human services to
26:37
Speaker 1: sit there and to say, oh, I won't sue anybody
26:40
Speaker 1: if they're committing crimes against the American people. Well you
26:43
Speaker 1: want to know why, because she's the one on the take.
26:47
Speaker 1: She's the one that has decided to put profits in
26:52
Speaker 1: her own account above everything else. She is bought and
26:55
Speaker 1: paid for by the pharmaceutical companies. No different than Anthony Fauci,
27:01
Speaker 1: by the way, when he was in charge, the way
27:02
Speaker 1: that he was in charge, This is the problem in
27:05
Speaker 1: Washington is that she's up there. She's not protecting the
27:09
Speaker 1: American people. Okay, like she's not. She's not protecting the
27:12
Speaker 1: American people. She's protecting her own donor list. That's what
27:18
Speaker 1: she is, protecting her donor list. Make sure you share
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27:25
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