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Bill Maher Sparks Firestorm Over Immigration, Epstein Files Fiasco & How Many Illegals Are on Medicaid? · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Bill Maher clashed with a liberal actor over Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: and immigration policy. This at the same time as ICE
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  Speaker 1: agents have arrested one three hundred and sixty one criminal
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  Speaker 1: aliens in Houston, Texas alone in June. Now, among the
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  Speaker 1: aliens arrested, we're thirty two child predators, nine murderers, sixteen
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  Speaker 1: gang or cartel members, and one alien convicted for hijacking
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  Speaker 1: an airplane. That's just the highlight reel of what was
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  Speaker 1: taking on the streets just in Houston, Texas. Because we
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  Speaker 1: have law and order that this president is advocating for. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Bill Maher talking with this liberal actor clashing over immigration,
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  Speaker 1: and I want you to hear what was said.
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  Speaker 2: Part of this is a backlash to how badly Biden
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  Speaker 2: handled the immigration situation. It can't just be like, come one, all, which.
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  Speaker 3: Is plenty of There's plenty of room here and we
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  Speaker 3: need room, Lettie, There's plenty of room in America.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, there's not a lack of room. It's never
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  Speaker 1: about room.
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  Speaker 2: It's about resources and about like having a countries have
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  Speaker 2: to have a border. You can it just can't be.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they've done surveys and something like two hundred
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  Speaker 2: million people around the world when asked, would you come
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  Speaker 2: to America if you couldn't? Yes, I would. Why wouldn't they?
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  Speaker 2: Lots of countries excuse me, are polls right? And they
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  Speaker 2: would love to be here? You can't right, right, the
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  Speaker 2: places aren't, but well they are.
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  Speaker 1: Well they are, Mars said on his podcast, and immigration
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  Speaker 1: had gotten so out of control under the Biden administration
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  Speaker 1: that he understands now why Donald Trump is doing what
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  Speaker 1: he's doing, and also just being honest. Are you a
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  Speaker 1: country if you don't have a border, No, you are
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  Speaker 1: not a country. And this idea from this liberal actor
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  Speaker 1: is like, well, there's plenty of room here. There's plenty
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  Speaker 1: of room in America. Come on, there's no lack of
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  Speaker 1: room in America's is the logic, right? Can you imagine
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  Speaker 1: two hundred million people just randomly showing up in the
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  Speaker 1: United States of America because he said, they did this
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  Speaker 1: survey something like two hundred million people around the world
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  Speaker 1: would ask would you come to America? If you could
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  Speaker 1: say yes? And he said, again, why wouldn't they? Lots
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  Speaker 1: of countries excuse me, are blank holes and they would
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  Speaker 1: love to be there. Now that's the same thing that
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  Speaker 1: Trump said. Remember several years ago, they're like, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 1: you're racist. I'm sure they won't say bo Mar's racist
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  Speaker 1: because he's on the left, but I mean Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: was fiercely criticized by the left when his first term
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  Speaker 1: when he said the same thing about Haiti and El Salvador.
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  Speaker 1: He said the places and then this acts are like, well,
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  Speaker 1: they're not blank holes, and Bill Maher doubled down, well,
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  Speaker 1: they are. That's why they want to come here. Why
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  Speaker 1: do you think two hundred million people around the world
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  Speaker 1: say if they could come to America they would. But
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  Speaker 1: this is part of what the left is their whole goal.
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  Speaker 1: Go back to the census for a second. If you
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  Speaker 1: count illegal immigrants, which we do in our census, it
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  Speaker 1: changes in a hard core way, in a massive way.
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  Speaker 1: How many people are how many congressmen come from those areas.
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  Speaker 1: Think about sanctuary cities and large cities like let's go
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  Speaker 1: to Minneapoli, Saint Paul. They have more congress people there
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  Speaker 1: because they have a large population and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: his legal immigrants. Look at the whole state of California
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  Speaker 1: is another example. Look at la They are overly represented
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  Speaker 1: compared to other parts in the country because they count
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  Speaker 1: illegal immigrants. Look at I mean, you can go anywhere
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  Speaker 1: in the country with a sanctuary city. New York City
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  Speaker 1: is another example, Chicago is another example. The list goes
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  Speaker 1: on and on. Why do you think Democrats have no
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  Speaker 1: problem with flooding this country legal immigrants because they know
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  Speaker 1: that when they go to the sanctuary cities, that means
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  Speaker 1: they get more people in Congress, which means they have
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  Speaker 1: a better chance of having the majority instead of the minority.
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  Speaker 1: And so we shouldn't by the way, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think this should be controversial, by the way
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  Speaker 1: at all. We should not be counting illegal immigrants in
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  Speaker 1: the census. Illegal immigrants also shouldn't be getting government benefits
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  Speaker 1: when they're here illegally. We should have actual borders. We
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't have open borders. And you're not a country if
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  Speaker 1: you don't have defined borders. All of these things are
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  Speaker 1: a reality of the conversation that desperately needs to be had.
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  Speaker 1: And look, the American people stood with the President of
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  Speaker 1: the United States of America on this issue. That's why
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  Speaker 1: it got elected, because the majority of Americans said, we
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  Speaker 1: are sick and tired of what we're witnessing right now.
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  Speaker 1: And we are sick and tired of having these open borders,
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  Speaker 1: and we want a country. We want to be a
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  Speaker 1: country of laws that are in force. We don't want
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  Speaker 1: people coming into this country, taking from us and maybe
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  Speaker 1: having no allegiance to this country, or not even knowing
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  Speaker 1: who they are, which brings me back to the second
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  Speaker 1: narrative that we're dealing with here. ICE has arrested one
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  Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty one criminal aliens in the Houston
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  Speaker 1: area in June alone. US Immigration custom Enforcement arresting these
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  Speaker 1: aliens during their month that they say is truly shocking.
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  Speaker 1: These are people that have been convicted of criminal offenses
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  Speaker 1: after legally entering the United States of America. At the
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  Speaker 1: website for ICE, they actually put this out quote. Despite
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  Speaker 1: attempts by some to underminor mission by spreading false and
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  Speaker 1: malicious rumors, the brave men and women of ICE continue
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  Speaker 1: to work tirelessly around the clock targeting dangerous criminal aliens
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  Speaker 1: to restore integrity to our nation's immigration system and bolster
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  Speaker 1: public safety in our communities. That's what ICE Enforcement and
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  Speaker 1: Removal Operations Houston Acting Field Office Director said in a statement.
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  Speaker 1: Went on to say this the number of dangerous criminal
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  Speaker 1: aliens that were removed from local communities across south East
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  Speaker 1: Texas last month is just another example of their selfless
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  Speaker 1: and unyielding effort to return our local communities to places
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  Speaker 1: where we can all raise our families without having to
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  Speaker 1: worry about child predators, gang members, cartel members, other violent
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  Speaker 1: criminal aliens praying on our loved ones. Now you go
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  Speaker 1: back to the list, and again the Democrats and the
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  Speaker 1: media want you to believe that everybody that's getting arrested
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  Speaker 1: right now is just some kind loving person that just
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  Speaker 1: happens to be in this country illegally and they really
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  Speaker 1: didn't do anything wrong. We don't even think they broke
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  Speaker 1: the law, all right, Look at the list. Among the
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  Speaker 1: criminal aliens arrested in June by ice Houston Field Office,
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  Speaker 1: you had a fifty six year old criminal alien from
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  Speaker 1: Cuba arrested by ICE who was convicted in three of
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  Speaker 1: hijacking an airplane traveling from Cube to Key West, Florida.
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  Speaker 1: You have a forty seven year old criminal alien from
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  Speaker 1: Mexico and a former gang member arrested by ICE who
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  Speaker 1: was illegally entering who had illegally entered the country six
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  Speaker 1: times and had been convicted twice for trafficking cocaine and
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  Speaker 1: once for attempted murder. Another arrest for evading arrest, illegal entry,
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  Speaker 1: in drug possession. You had another twenty nine year old
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  Speaker 1: six time deported criminal alien from Mexico arrested by ICE
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  Speaker 1: who had been convicted of homicide, had been convicted of
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  Speaker 1: aggravated robbery, convicted of burglary of a vehicle, and drug possession.
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  Speaker 1: You had another forty year old criminal from Mexico arrested
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  Speaker 1: by Ice June the twenty fourth, who has illegally entered
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  Speaker 1: the US four times and been convicted of sexual assault
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  Speaker 1: of a miner and also been convicted of theft. You
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  Speaker 1: had a fifty one year old criminal alien from Mexico
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  Speaker 1: arrested by ICE who had been convicted of sexual indecency
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  Speaker 1: with a minor, criminal trespassed with a deadly weapon, driving
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  Speaker 1: while intoxicated, and unauthorized use of a firearm. Now the
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  Speaker 1: arrest are parts of just the Houston Fields Office routine
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  Speaker 1: immigration enforcement activities being conducted alongside federal, state and local
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  Speaker 1: law enforcement agencies. They say daily throughout the Southeast Texas
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  Speaker 1: to enhance public safety, national security, and border security. So
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  Speaker 1: they put this out we see all these pictures, we realize,
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  Speaker 1: oh wait, these are actually really bad Own Brais. They're
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  Speaker 1: not just grabbing some random person off the street, which
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  Speaker 1: is what the left wants you to believe that there's
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  Speaker 1: some grandmother who's been there for thirty five years and
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  Speaker 1: that's who Ice is going after. It's pretty darn clear, okay,
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  Speaker 1: that there are really bad own Braids. There are really
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  Speaker 1: evil and sick people out there that are doing heinous
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  Speaker 1: crimes to our community and killing our communities. Right. They're
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  Speaker 1: killing our communities with fetnel. You look at the number
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  Speaker 1: one killer of young people forty five hundred. What is
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  Speaker 1: it? It's fetanl You think the Democratic Party gives the rats
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  Speaker 1: we're in about the people that die today from fetanol
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  Speaker 1: accidal overdoses. They do not care, and they'll never care,
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  Speaker 1: because this is about power. This is about votes, This
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  Speaker 1: is about the census, This is about eventually giving them
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  Speaker 1: and turning them into the best way I can describe
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  Speaker 1: it is American citizens. They want them here, and they
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  Speaker 1: want as many of them here as they can get
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  Speaker 1: their hands on. That's why they opened our borders. And
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  Speaker 1: they knew that all the people that we're arresting, right,
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  Speaker 1: now they knew that all of them that were coming
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  Speaker 1: into this country were doing terrible things. They knew that
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  Speaker 1: they that they were lying to the American people, and
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  Speaker 1: they didn't care because they wanted to change the country.
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  Speaker 1: They wanted to change the country fundamentally. I want to
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  Speaker 1: pivot real quick to the Epstein Files, because I promise
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  Speaker 1: you I was going to talk about this and it's important.
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  Speaker 1: This is a colossal pr failure by the Republicans. I
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  Speaker 1: want to be very clear about this. The fact that
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  Speaker 1: the White House and Pambondi brought a bunch of conservative
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  Speaker 1: influencers to the White House, gave them what was the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein Files, you know, part one binders, which was all
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  Speaker 1: information we already knew before, sent them out in front
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  Speaker 1: of the media, and had them walking out of the
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  Speaker 1: White House holding these binders up like it was some
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  Speaker 1: amazing thing. That was just a dumb move. The reason
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  Speaker 1: why I say it's a dumb move is because of
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  Speaker 1: what we are now witnessing, which is they're now saying like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, well, there may not be anything there. I
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  Speaker 1: don't buy that for a second. I also want to
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  Speaker 1: be clear about that, like I don't believe that there's
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  Speaker 1: nothing there yet. I think much of the Epstein files
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  Speaker 1: that have been redacted have need to be unredacted, and
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  Speaker 1: we need to see what's there. I also think this
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  Speaker 1: goes back to one of the basic issues, and the
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  Speaker 1: FBI deputy senior National Intelligence officer was caught on tape
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  Speaker 1: confessing that the FBI turned blind eye in the Epstein case.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the other reason why I want more answers.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not willing to let it go. Listen, I'm with
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  Speaker 1: this shows.
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  Speaker 4: I do a lot of kind of like countering white supremacy.
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  Speaker 4: You think the last the last two and a half years,
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  Speaker 4: Love was at the White House.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they kind of got moved.
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  Speaker 4: Back after the whole with the new administration coming in.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, small lay.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of been watching the ex document. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they're trying to.
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  Speaker 4: Try to release some of the files like the White
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  Speaker 4: House losses.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It's just a messy. Like but because they even invited
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  Speaker 4: some of like the block like go like the influencers
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  Speaker 4: and like right wings loggers and so release the files.
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  Speaker 1: I see, he's a little weird.
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  Speaker 4: Just release it on one's see where law enforcement kind
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  Speaker 4: of either turn a blind eye or like miss miss things,
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  Speaker 4: and there's opportunities just from hearing and listening.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you listen to that. This is an FBI
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  Speaker 1: deputy senior intelligent National intelligence officer confessing the FBI turned
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  Speaker 1: a blind eye and the Epstein case caught on OMG.
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  Speaker 1: James O'Keeffe undercover video and you look at this and
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  Speaker 1: you're like, really, now, I'm not surprised. And the problem
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  Speaker 1: now is many conservatives are angry over this because we
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  Speaker 1: were promised the Epstein file, and I do believe the
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  Speaker 1: White House should release whatever they do have, and they
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  Speaker 1: oversold it. Pambondi oversold it. I think that's pretty clear now.
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  Speaker 1: And if there is not a big thing there, then
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  Speaker 1: I want to know about the cover up of it,
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  Speaker 1: because I don't believe Jeffrey Epstein got to where he
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  Speaker 1: was without being able to blackmail people to make all
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  Speaker 1: of his money and abusing young girls, and that there
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  Speaker 1: was a client list Jeffrey Epstein. Is this whole issue
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  Speaker 1: now that the president made an issue when he was
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  Speaker 1: running for president. People are like, I want the payoff.
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  Speaker 1: I want to see this now. I want to know
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  Speaker 1: what's going on now. Well, let me also let you
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  Speaker 1: understand what Democrats are doing, and this is very smart politically. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I want to be clear about that. This is extremely
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  Speaker 1: smart politically, hikme. Jeffries came out today and just ripped Republicans,
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  Speaker 1: and now Democrats like, we demand the Epstein file, something
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  Speaker 1: they didn't give a crap about when Joe Biden was president,
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  Speaker 1: but now they want it. And the reason why is
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  Speaker 1: because they want to make the president look like he's
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  Speaker 1: covering for conservatives, or he was a liar, or that
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  Speaker 1: Pambandi's a liar. And they understand that there's blood in
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  Speaker 1: the water on this one with conservative voters, and they're
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  Speaker 1: they're now like, let's exploit it. Listen carefully to his words.
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  Speaker 6: The American people deserve to know the truth, the whole truth,
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  Speaker 6: and nothing but the truth as it relates to this
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  Speaker 6: whole sordid Jeffrey Epstein matter. Democrats didn't put the Jeffrey
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  Speaker 6: Epstein thing into the public domain. This was a conspiracy
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  Speaker 6: that Donald Trump, Pambondy and these MAGA extremists have been
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  Speaker 6: fanning the flames of for the last several years, and
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  Speaker 6: now the chickens are coming home to roost. The American
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  Speaker 6: people deserve to know the truth. What, if anything, is
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  Speaker 6: the Trump administration and the Department of Justice hiding. What
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  Speaker 6: are you hiding. If you're not hiding anything, prove that
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  Speaker 6: to the American people. And if you are trying to
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  Speaker 6: hide something, as many of Donald Trump's MAGA supporters apparently believe,
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  Speaker 6: then the Congress should actually work hard to try to
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  Speaker 6: uncover the truth for the American people. There are only
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  Speaker 6: two things that are possible here. Option one, Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 6: Pambondy and the MAGA extremists intentionally lied to the American
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  Speaker 6: people for years about the Jeffrey Epstein situation. That's option one.
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  Speaker 6: Option two is that in fact, there's reason for the
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  Speaker 6: American people to be concerned as it relates to what
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  Speaker 6: information has not been released that could be damaging to
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  Speaker 6: the Trump administration and the friends and family of the
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  Speaker 6: Trump administration. And they're billionaire, corrupt supporters, and so they're
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  Speaker 6: actively engaging in a cover up. Option one, they live
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  Speaker 6: for years. Option two, they're engaging in a cover up.
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  Speaker 1: Now let me go back to the politics. This This
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  Speaker 1: is like one of the smartest political moves I've seen
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  Speaker 1: by Democrats and Hakeem Jeffreys. I'll give credit where credits
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  Speaker 1: due on this one, like this is a smart political move.
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  Speaker 1: The Republicans overplayed their hand and under delivered, and now
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  Speaker 1: people that are supporters of Donald Trump are angry and
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  Speaker 1: it looks like there is some sort of cover up here.
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  Speaker 1: Whether there is or not, it doesn't matter. It looks
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  Speaker 1: like it. And so what they're doing is they're seizing
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  Speaker 1: this opportunity to do this. I'll give you this. Mark
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  Speaker 1: Mark Theessen, by the way, on Fox News Sunday, said
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  Speaker 1: this about the fallout over the doj Epstein memo. Some
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  Speaker 1: damage from this. That's that to me is the reality here.
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  Speaker 5: Ninety one indictments, the Mueller probe, two impeachments, civil suits
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  Speaker 5: to bankrupt him. But the Biden people had had the
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  Speaker 5: Epstein files with Trump's name in it and they didn't
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  Speaker 5: use it.
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  Speaker 1: You break.
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  Speaker 4: I want to make sure.
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  Speaker 1: I love that, by the way. I love the fact
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  Speaker 1: he's like Biden's people had the Epstein files of Trump's
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  Speaker 1: name in it and they didn't use it. Give me
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  Speaker 1: a break. He's right, And the point is like, don't
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  Speaker 1: get yourself in a bad situation for no reason. And
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  Speaker 1: I think Republicans need to fight back on this one.
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  Speaker 1: And they need to. They need to put it out there,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is, and and and get the reactions out
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  Speaker 1: of the files. Whatever we do have to show the
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  Speaker 1: American people. I think it's time for the American people
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  Speaker 1: to see it. But if again Democrats smell blood in
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  Speaker 1: the water. On ABC this week, they were like, Wow,
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  Speaker 1: the White House needs to come clean about the Epstein files,
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  Speaker 1: implying that there's a bunch of Republicans or Donald Trump's
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  Speaker 1: name in the Epstein file. Again using this politically, it's scumbagery,
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  Speaker 1: but it's brilliant.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, the Attorney General Pambondi went to the public
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  Speaker 7: and said all kinds of things about this. She said
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  Speaker 7: there was a list, there was files, they had people,
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  Speaker 7: you know that was in front of the White House,
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  Speaker 7: in front of the West Wing, that they had the
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  Speaker 7: influencers out there. So, I mean, there's a very legitimate
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  Speaker 7: question here. Number one, was she lying then or is
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  Speaker 7: she lying now? She's the Attorney general. I do think
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  Speaker 7: she should go in front of Congress and sort of
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  Speaker 7: just explain the facts here, because ultimately it is a
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  Speaker 7: big question. Was she just prancing around making things up?
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  Speaker 7: You're not really supposed to do that. As the jorneys,
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  Speaker 7: and then second of all, they say, you know that
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  Speaker 7: everyone's acting like they don't know what the conspiracy theory is.
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  Speaker 7: The conspiracy theory is that the client list has Donald
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  Speaker 7: Trump on it and that's why his government is holding
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  Speaker 7: it back. And I think you should just we need
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  Speaker 7: to have people honestly answer questions in front of Congress
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  Speaker 7: or the press, to just have this out once in
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: front of the overall problem.
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  Speaker 1: Like they're they're playing into this beautifully because it was
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  Speaker 1: over sold and you can't oversell it and then all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden just run away from it like it
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  Speaker 1: never happened. Democrats are going to seize this moment until
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  Speaker 1: you get it all out there and you show all
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  Speaker 1: of it. And they're going to keep quoting Pambondi, and
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  Speaker 1: they're going to keep quoting Dan Bongino, and they're going
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  Speaker 1: to keep quoting everybody that's made any quote about Epstein.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, yeah, I'm glad there's some out there
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  Speaker 1: that are actually attacking also the hypocrisy on the left.
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  Speaker 1: Chris Cromo, for example, blasted AOC this week for suddenly
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  Speaker 3: AOC has had nothing to say about the attacks on
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  Speaker 1: Hope it goes viral because that's all you're about.
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  Speaker 3: What have you ever done to fight for the release
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  Speaker 1: more on that in a moment, But one study from
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  Speaker 1: the liberal leaning Fiscal Policy Institute, cited by Congressman Hunt,
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  Speaker 1: found that there are some six hundred and seventy thousand
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  Speaker 1: illegal immigrants in the Empire State. In fact, it is
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  Speaker 1: now about five percent of the population. New York has
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  Speaker 1: implementation of Medicaid, a program that provides health insurance to
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  Speaker 1: seventy million low income Americans, and now the question is
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  Speaker 1: how many illegals. A spokesperson for the governor quickly fired
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  Speaker 1: back at Congressman Hunt and argued that he should have
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  Speaker 1: focused on opposing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act over
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  Speaker 1: its Medicaid reforms instead of targeting New York, saying this,
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  Speaker 1: if Representative Hunt were truly concerned about the health and
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• 25:48
  Speaker 1: focus to voting against the Big Ugly Bill which will
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: invoke irreparable damage to Medicaid programs nationwide, including in his
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  Speaker 1: home state of Texas. Yet again, you may notice that
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: the spokesperson for the governor did not answer the question
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  Speaker 1: how many illegal immigrants are receiving benefits? This is just
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  Speaker 1: another pitiful attempt. The governor's office went on to say
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  Speaker 1: to divert attention from Republican actions to eliminate healthcare for
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  Speaker 1: one point five million New Yorkers and deny food security
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  Speaker 1: access to millions of seniors and children. You'll notice in
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: that statement, yet again the governor New York refusing to
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: answer the question how many illegal immigrants are taking government benefits. Now,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: state officials have told the New York Posts that, quote,
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  Speaker 1: most undocumented individuals are not eligible for full medicaid coverage.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Now notice the words they used, most undocumented individuals are
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: not eligible for quote full medicaid coverage. By the way,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: that statement would also be true for most American citizens
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  Speaker 1: are not eligible for full Medicaid coverage, and that the
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  Speaker 1: small group that is enrolled in the state's program has
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: not benefited they claim from federal dollars. Now, New York
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: also claimed that spending was unrelated to the one to
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: one one five waivers. Well, then why would the Governor
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: New York not answer this simple question that was put
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: to her by Wesley Hunt. Now, Hunt noted that the
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Biden administration had rejected the use of those waivers for
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: states like South Carolina, Arizona, and other states. The Texas
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Republican stress that the waivers were not intended to allow
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: illegal immigrants to benefit American tax dollars going for their
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: healthcare coverage. Now, the Biden administration allowed and even encouraged
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: the use of these one one one five waivers to
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  Speaker 1: extend Medicaid to undocumented immigrants, something that Democrats are now
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: claiming never happened, and despite federal law actually prohibiting them
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  Speaker 1: from receiving these benefits, Hunt wrote in a letter to
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  Speaker 1: Hochel on Monday.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Back in February, President Trump also signed an executive order
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  Speaker 1: the Director's Administration to ensure and a maximum extent possible,
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  Speaker 1: that quote no taxpayer fund of benefits go to unqualified aliens.
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  Speaker 1: That order pointed to existing law, such as the Personal
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of nineteen ninety six,
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  Speaker 1: which generally blocks illegal immigrants from getting federal benefits from taxpayers.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: The Texas Republican also cited concerns about New York's green
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  Speaker 1: light law, which permits all state residents, regardless of immigration status,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: to get driver's licenses. Now the Justice Department filed a
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: lawsuit against that law, arguing that a hamstring's federal enforcement
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: of immigration law. Hunt argued it can help illegal immigrants
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  Speaker 1: get access to tax payer funded benefits using the driver's
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  Speaker 1: license to gain that access, and to address these concerns,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Hunt now demanded that HOCHE will conduct a review of
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  Speaker 1: its medicaid enrollment base on social Security numbers and release
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  Speaker 1: those findings to the public, saying this New Yorkers deserve transparency, accountability,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: and adherence to law in the administration of public health programs.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Policies to divert limited resources away from lawful recipients American
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  Speaker 1: citizens not only violates federal standards, they also destroy public
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  Speaker 1: trust and threaten the sustainability of programs designed to serve
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: our most vulnerable American citizens. Now. Hunt has also drawn
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: speculation over recent weeks that he may vie for Senator
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: John Cornyn's seat in the Senate in Texas in the
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six midterms, and this could very well be
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: one of those points that he would campaign on. Now,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: let me say one other thing about this. We deserve answers.
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  Speaker 1: The American people, as taxpayers, deserve to know where their
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: money is going and if it is being diverted to
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  Speaker 1: six hundred and seventy thousand illegal immigrants in the Empire state, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: about four and a half percent of its population. One
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: other thing that I think is also a point that
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  Speaker 1: needs to be made. You notice that Democrats did not
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: deny in any of the statements coming from the governor's
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: office that illegal immigrants are receiving benefits, and they word
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: it carefully to say, well, some may, but most aren't,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: and most aren't receiving full benefits. Well, that also goes
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  Speaker 1: for the same with the Americans in base that are
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: eligible for Medicaid benefits as well. It is supposed to
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: help the weakest, the least, the poorest, and those that
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: are the most in need. Yet many Americans do not
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: qualify for full benefits. So why are we giving those
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  Speaker 1: benefits to illegal immigrants? That's the question every American should
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