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Power Plants or Peace: Trump Draws a Red Line on Hormuz · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Iran has threatened to completely close the Straight of Hermuz
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  Speaker 1: after Donald Trump has given an ultimatum. On Sunday, Iran
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  Speaker 1: threatened that the Straight of Hermuse, critical to all and
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  Speaker 1: other exports, would be completely quote unquote closed immediately if
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  Speaker 1: the US follows up on President Donald Trump's threat to
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  Speaker 1: attack its power plants. Trump late Saturday set a forty
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  Speaker 1: eight hour deadline to open the strait. Iran has effectively
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  Speaker 1: closed the Straight of her Mouse that connects the Persian
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  Speaker 1: Gulf to the rest of the world, while claiming safe
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  Speaker 1: passage for vessels from countries other than its enemies. Roughly
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  Speaker 1: one fifth of global oil supplies passed through it, but
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  Speaker 1: attacks on ships have stopped nearly all tanker traffic because
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  Speaker 1: no one wants to take the risk. Trump said if
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  Speaker 1: Iran didn't open the strait, the US would destroy its
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  Speaker 1: various power plants, starting with the biggest one first. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the US has argued that Iran's Revolutionary Guard controls mud
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  Speaker 1: to the country's infrastructure and uses it to power the
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  Speaker 1: war effort. Under international law, power plants that benefit civilians
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  Speaker 1: can be targeted only if the military advantage outweighs the
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  Speaker 1: suffering It causes them is what legal scholars will tell you.
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  Speaker 1: Iranian's parliament speaker responded on x that if Iran's power
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  Speaker 1: plants and infrastructure are targeted, then vital infrastructure across the region,
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  Speaker 1: including energy and water facilities critical for drinking water and
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  Speaker 1: Gulf nations, would be considered legitimate targets and irreversibly quote
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  Speaker 1: unquote destroyed. The speaker in Iran later added that the
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  Speaker 1: entities that finance the US military budget are also legitimate targets.
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  Speaker 1: Attacks on power plants would be inherently indiscriminate and clearly disproportionate,
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  Speaker 1: and a war crime, is what Iran's UN ambassador wrote
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  Speaker 1: to the Security Council on Sunday. According to state run
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  Speaker 1: Irna news agency, Iran said it strikes in the Desert
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  Speaker 1: Lake Saturday. We're in retaliation for the latest attack on
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  Speaker 1: Iran's main nuclear enrichment site. According to state run media
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  Speaker 1: as well, Tehran praise its attack as a show of strength,
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  Speaker 1: even as Israel's military asserts that Iranian missile launches have
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  Speaker 1: decreased since the war began significantly. Israeli leaders visited one
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  Speaker 1: of two southern communities near a secretive nuclear research site
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  Speaker 1: struck by Iranian missiles late Saturday, which scores of people,
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  Speaker 1: with scores of people wounded. The Prime Minister there Netanyah,
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  Speaker 1: who said it was a miracle no one was killed. Netnah,
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  Speaker 1: who claimed Israel and the US were well on their
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  Speaker 1: way to achieving their war goals. The ams have ranged
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  Speaker 1: from weakening Iran's nuclear program, their missile program, and support
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  Speaker 1: for armed proxies to enabling the Iranian people to overthrow
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  Speaker 1: their government. There has been no sign of an uprising,
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  Speaker 1: nor of an end to the fighting that has shaken
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  Speaker 1: the global economy. Many believe that the reason why you
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  Speaker 1: haven't seen the uprighting is because people in Iran are
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  Speaker 1: too afraid with all the bombing going on to go outside.
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  Speaker 1: It's also sent oil prices surging, and it is also
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  Speaker 1: endangered some of the world's busiest air corridors. The war,
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  Speaker 1: which the US and Israel launched February the twenty eighth,
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  Speaker 1: has now taken out about a five x in depth
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  Speaker 1: of the leadership in Iran. The Iranian back Hesblah claimed
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  Speaker 1: responsibility for an air strike as well that killed a
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  Speaker 1: man in northern Israel, while Lebanese president called Israel's new
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  Speaker 1: targeting of bridges in the south. They prelude to a
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  Speaker 1: ground invasion. More weeks of fighting against Iran and Hesbar
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  Speaker 1: are expected for US, said the Israeli military spokesman in
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  Speaker 1: an interview today. Southern Israel's main hospital received at least
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy five a wounded from the area
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  Speaker 1: and the fighting that has taken place there. Israel is
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  Speaker 1: widely believed to possess nuclear weapons, though it doesn't confirm
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  Speaker 1: or deny their existence. Israel denied responsibility by the way
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  Speaker 1: for hitting one of the main targets on Saturday. The
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  Speaker 1: Pentagon declined to comment on the strike altogether. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: International Atomic Energy Agency said the bulk of Iran's estimated
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  Speaker 1: nine hundred and seventy two pounds of enriched uranium. The
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  Speaker 1: issue at heart of the tensions is elsewhere beneath the
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  Speaker 1: rubble at one of its facilities has already been hit
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  Speaker 1: by the US and Israeli civilian we also know was
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  Speaker 1: killed in his car the northern town, and what Israel's
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  Speaker 1: military originally said appeared to be a rocket attack later
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  Speaker 1: was looking into the possibility that the death was caused
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  Speaker 1: by Israeli soldiers fire Israeli authorities identified a man as
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  Speaker 1: a c one year old farmer two days ago to
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  Speaker 1: Russian Roulette, and he clearly knew exactly what he was
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  Speaker 1: com now. We also know that hesblas lawn strikes on
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  Speaker 1: Israel soon after the war began, calling it retaliation for
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  Speaker 1: the killing of a rand supreme leader. I Ran then
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  Speaker 1: targeted Hesblah with airstrikes and expanded its ground presence in
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  Speaker 1: southern Lebanon. Israel on Sunday expanded its target list to
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  Speaker 1: include bridges over many of the main river corridors. The
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  Speaker 1: Defense minister said Hesba is using those bridges to move
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  Speaker 1: fighters and weapons to the south. Israel later struck another bridge,
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  Speaker 1: giving an hour's warning. Destroying bridges further isolates residents from
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  Speaker 1: the rest of Lebanon, but those bridges are being used
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  Speaker 1: by the terrorist organization. We know that Israel also ordered
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  Speaker 1: the military to accelerate destruction of Lebanese homes near the border.
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  Speaker 1: Is well giving warning. Lebanese authorities say Israeli strikes have
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  Speaker 1: killed more than a thousand people and displaced more than
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  Speaker 1: one million. Meanwhile, HESBLA has fired hundreds of rockets into
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  Speaker 1: Israel indiscriminately. Iran's death told by the way, and the
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  Speaker 1: war has also surpassed their claiming. One thousand, five hundred
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  Speaker 1: is what their Health ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: And in Israel, fifteen people have been killed by Iranian strikes.
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  Speaker 1: More than a dozen civilians in the occupied West Banks
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  Speaker 1: and the Gulf Fared States have been killed in the
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  Speaker 1: strikes as well. A Katari military helicopter we also know
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  Speaker 1: crashed on Saturday waiting on a technical malfunction and it
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  Speaker 1: killed all seven on board, the Katari authority said, which
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  Speaker 1: brings us to investor Mike Waltz. Mike Waltz on face
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  Speaker 1: the Nation asked about a lot of this, and here's
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  Speaker 1: part of what he said.
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  Speaker 2: On Friday, the President tweeted the horror Mouz strait will
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  Speaker 2: have to be guarded and policed as necessary by other
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  Speaker 2: nations who use it. The United States does not, and
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  Speaker 2: then last night he threatened that if Aron doesn't fully
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  Speaker 2: open the Strait of hormones. Within forty eight hours, the
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  Speaker 2: US will hit and obliterate their power plants, starting with
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  Speaker 2: the biggest one first. So which is it is the
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  Speaker 2: US opening hormones by force or having others.
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  Speaker 3: Do it well?
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  Speaker 4: I think it can be both. It's not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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  Speaker 4: I'm glad you're having NATO Secretary General Mark Ruta on.
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  Speaker 4: I think at his urging and his leadership, we've now
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  Speaker 4: seen Italy, Germany, France and a number of others commit
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  Speaker 4: to help with this effort, particularly since, particularly since so
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  Speaker 4: much energy is going to Europe out of the Straits.
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  Speaker 4: We just have the Japanese Prime Minister commit to portions
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  Speaker 4: of her navy and the Japanese Navy. Eighty percent of
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  Speaker 4: what's coming out of the Gulf is going to Asia.
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  Speaker 4: So we are seeing our allies come around as they should.
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  Speaker 4: But at the same time, the President is not going
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  Speaker 4: to stand for this regime as it's threatened and tried
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  Speaker 4: for five decades to hold the world's energy supplies hostage
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  Speaker 4: under its genocidal intent.
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  Speaker 1: Genocidal intent Ambassador Mike Waltz making it very clear what
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  Speaker 1: this is all about. Trump is making it clear I
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  Speaker 1: will obliterate Iran's power plants, and he's calling on other
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  Speaker 1: nations to believe the strait of her moves as well.
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  Speaker 1: He also said those are not exclusively are mutually exclusive,
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  Speaker 1: which is very interesting. There is a big plan to
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  Speaker 1: bring ice agents to airports amid the Department of Home
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  Speaker 1: and Security shutdown to assist the TSA. Now, I want
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  Speaker 1: to make this clear. The media is lying to you
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  Speaker 1: about this or trying to low to you claiming that
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  Speaker 1: untrained individuals will be checking your luggage and reading the
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  Speaker 1: X ray machines. That is a lie. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: say it again. That is a lie. That was never
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  Speaker 1: the plan. Let me also play for you something else
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  Speaker 1: that Sean Duffy said on CNBC, and this is the
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  Speaker 1: politics of this I do think are actually important. He
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  Speaker 1: was being pressed by CNBC about this TSA gridlock and
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  Speaker 1: the call out rate is hitting ten percent. The Transitation
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  Speaker 1: Secretary did a warning that hey, if you missed paychecks
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  Speaker 1: on Friday, which we're missed, you think it's bad, Now
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  Speaker 1: wait till next week that would be this week, and
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  Speaker 1: listen to what he said.
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  Speaker 5: For honest, what's really happening. Republicans can the House the
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  Speaker 5: Senate and the White House. But Democrats in the Senate
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  Speaker 5: have the ability to shut down Republican movements because of
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  Speaker 5: the filibuster rule. Right, you need sixty votes to pass
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  Speaker 5: a bill, and because Democrats don't get to yes, that
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  Speaker 5: bill won't pass. Right if we get into the weeds
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  Speaker 5: of how politics works. But then Democrats sit back and go, listen,
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  Speaker 5: we're not the majority. We can't do anything about this.
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  Speaker 5: It's Republicans' fault. Well, then that begs the question, do
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  Speaker 5: we get rid of the filibuster rule so we can
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  Speaker 5: pass good legislation? Because to your point, Joe, every single
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  Speaker 5: Republican is voting to fund homeland security, make sure these
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  Speaker 5: TSA lines go away, and every Democrat is voting to
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  Speaker 5: keep it shut down and make sure you have mass
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  Speaker 5: chaos in your airport. So it's very simple. And how
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  Speaker 5: anyone in the media could say something different about what's happening,
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  Speaker 5: I think is frustrating. But Republicans have to be better
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  Speaker 5: and I think continue to message why this is happening,
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  Speaker 5: and that Democrats are using the American people and inflicting
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  Speaker 5: pain on the American people for what they think is
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  Speaker 5: a political benefit.
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  Speaker 1: For what they think is a political benefit. I could
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  Speaker 1: not agree more. This is all a war, that's it.
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  Speaker 1: It is just a straight up war.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Sean Duffy announcing that there was a ten present rediction
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  Speaker 1: flights across forty US airports, remember that back in November,
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  Speaker 1: and people said, I can't believe he was doing that
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  Speaker 1: back in the day, because he didn't want people to
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  Speaker 1: have to suffer. That was part of the reason when
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  Speaker 1: he announced that. And the Democrats are always playing politics
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  Speaker 1: saying no, you guys have told me what you're doing.
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  Speaker 1: I know what's happening. I'm gonna make it where Americans
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  Speaker 1: don't hurt as much, and we're gonna shut down slowly
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  Speaker 1: the way we have to. He's absolutely right in the
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  Speaker 1: way that he is describing this. And now ICE agents
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  Speaker 1: are trained and can assist he has say at airports.
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  Speaker 1: Thank goodness we have Sean Duffy who's willing to actually
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  Speaker 1: do the right thing here. There are so many Americans
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  Speaker 1: that are just exhausted from this, like I mean, and
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  Speaker 1: by the way, he not only does the President of
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  Speaker 1: the United States America care, he and the Republican parties
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  Speaker 1: have done everything they possibly can to try to get
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  Speaker 1: this to go back to the same normal world you
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  Speaker 1: look at you look at I go back to Tom Homan
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  Speaker 1: for a second, because I do think that that that
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  Speaker 1: Tom and the point that he was making in and again,
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  Speaker 1: what Democrats are trying to do is they're trying to
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  Speaker 1: convince you that somehow this is irresponsible, that what Tom
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  Speaker 1: Homan is doing and what the party's doing is somehow
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  Speaker 1: just totally irresponsible to bring in TSA agents this way.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't disagree with that more. The President of the
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  Speaker 1: United States of America said, can these guys be used?
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  Speaker 1: Tom Holman said yes. Do they understand how to help
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  Speaker 1: people in line, keep people safe? Yes? So so why
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  Speaker 1: would this be an issue? Why would anyone right? Why
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  Speaker 1: why would anyone against this? And unless you're a radical
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  Speaker 1: in the media, If you're radical in the media, then
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  Speaker 1: you yeah, you're against this, right like you If you
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  Speaker 1: want this to be an issue of total just despair
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  Speaker 1: and anarchy and chaos, and you want it to be
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  Speaker 1: a political issue, that then you want to attack ICE
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  Speaker 1: agentscy Oh no, no, you can't do this. You can't
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  Speaker 1: do this, You can't have this, You can't do this.
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  Speaker 1: If you're a normal human being and you're looking to
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  Speaker 1: TSA wait times and as Sean dev put it, it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna get much worse. Put pressure on Congress to come
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  Speaker 1: to resolutions. He described it, I couldn't agree them more.
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  Speaker 1: But this plan to bring in ICE agents, as he
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  Speaker 1: described it, this is not a radical plan. This is
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  Speaker 1: common sense. In fact, let me let me go back
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  Speaker 1: to Sean Duffy listen to what he says about this
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  Speaker 1: plan and why it's not insane.
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  Speaker 6: And I saw the President just a short while ago
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  Speaker 6: this morning posted this saying on Monday, ICE will be
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  Speaker 6: going to airports to help our wonderful TSA agents. Is
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  Speaker 6: that really the plan? Or are we gonna see ICE
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  Speaker 6: officers manning those airport security checkpoints?
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  Speaker 1: But by the way, notice that ABC this Week puts
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  Speaker 1: it in a light where it sounds like insane, Like
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  Speaker 1: is that really your plan, that you're gonna have TSA
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  Speaker 1: agents who are untrained doing this. By the way, that
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  Speaker 1: their scumbags and liars, they know that's not what's happening here.
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  Speaker 1: They know that they're gonna assist in the lines, they're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna be screening the baggage. But that is the
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  Speaker 1: narrative that ABC this Week wanted to put out there
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  Speaker 1: and they already knew the damn answer to this question.
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  Speaker 1: They wanted the controversy. They wanted people to be to
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  Speaker 1: go to the water cooler tomorrow, go can you believe
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  Speaker 1: what Trump's doing? He's got TSA agents screening bags. Now
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  Speaker 1: plane's gonna blow up because they don't know what they're doing.
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  Speaker 1: They don't know how, they don't know what in the
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  Speaker 1: world they're doing here. And that's what's gonna happen here.
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  Speaker 1: And he's putting people's lives at risk. That's the narrative
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  Speaker 1: they were hoping for their folks, like like they're pushing
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  Speaker 1: this out there that way because they want a narrative
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  Speaker 1: to be created, to be built that says, this is
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  Speaker 1: about this is what is about to happen, right like,
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  Speaker 1: this is what is about to go down. And Sean
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  Speaker 1: and Sean Duffy, by the way the way that he responds,
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  Speaker 1: listen what.
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  Speaker 5: I would say that you know, one of the leverage
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  Speaker 5: points that AARAN has is trying to drive up the
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  Speaker 5: price of oil. It's leverage. Democrats want to see long
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  Speaker 5: lines at airports as leverage. President Trump's trying to take
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  Speaker 5: that leverage away and not make the American people suffer.
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  Speaker 5: So TSA agents are law enforcement. They know how to
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  Speaker 5: pat people down, they know how to run the X
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  Speaker 5: ray machines because they are again under whole land security
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  Speaker 5: with TSA. So if we can bring in other assets
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  Speaker 5: and tools to assist TSA to get rid of these lines, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I think that makes a lot of sense. And the
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  Speaker 5: President's looking around every corner to make sure the American
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  Speaker 5: people don't suffer during the shutdown.
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  Speaker 6: And I understand ICE and TSA are both under DHS,
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  Speaker 6: but obviously greatly affect what you're doing at the Department
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  Speaker 6: of Transportation airport worts. Is there a plan in place?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, how many ICE agents are we talking about.
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  Speaker 6: Do they have any you know, practical, you know experience
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  Speaker 6: in manning airport security lines?
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  Speaker 3: Sure?
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  Speaker 5: Well, they run those same type of security machines at
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  Speaker 5: the southern border, right packages come through or people come through,
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  Speaker 5: they run similar assets. And again even if we look
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  Speaker 5: at the line there to manage the through flow of
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  Speaker 5: people and even administratively, they'll be helpful. But again we
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  Speaker 5: have ICE agents who are trained and can provide assistance
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  Speaker 5: to agents.
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  Speaker 1: I go back to the media. They want everything everything,
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  Speaker 1: They want everything to be a crisis on purpose. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you're a Democrat and you're listening right now, you
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  Speaker 1: should be mad because you're paying your taxes, and when
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: you pay your taxes, you should be able to go
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  Speaker 1: to an airport and not have to wait three or
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  Speaker 1: for hours to go the air to go on a
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  Speaker 1: damn airplane. In some cities, right now, they're saying that
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  Speaker 1: you need to get there four or five hours early.
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  Speaker 1: That is not normal. That is something that no one
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  Speaker 1: should accept as normal. And the only reason why this
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  Speaker 1: is happening is because Democrats are doing this on purpose
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  Speaker 1: to try to make it hurt. They're furious, they're livid
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  Speaker 1: at Donald Trump. They hate Ice agents, which is the
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  Speaker 1: funny part. Now, Ice agents are gonna go do this job,
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  Speaker 1: which is amazing, and they're angry at Donald Trump, and
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  Speaker 1: they want you to blame Donald Trump for bad travel.
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  Speaker 1: They're hoping that your ignorance and the media will help
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  Speaker 1: them spread this ignorance. And then they're hoping that you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna think Donald Trump's insane and that a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: untrained individuals are gonna be checking the X ray machines
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  Speaker 1: for bags starting Monday morning, right like that's their narrative.
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  Speaker 1: Are they gonna be checking the bags?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 1: Are they gonna screen the bags?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 1: Are they gonna be read the X ray machines know?
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  Speaker 1: Does the media know this? Yes? Are they still willing
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  Speaker 1: to put that lie out there on purpose? Yes? They
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  Speaker 1: are for that simple reason, And they know they're hurting you.
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  Speaker 1: They know that they're screwing people's lives up. They know
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: there's people that have medical emergencies they're trying to get to.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: They have family members that have gone into a hospital
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: and they're trying to get there in time to say goodbye.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: If you've ever done that, you know exactly I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 1: They know there's kids that are home that are sick
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: and parents are trying to fly or grandparents. They know
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: that the people are missing childbirths. Like not all travel
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: is spring break. By the way, I work really hard
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: to take my family on spring break. I want to
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: have that spring break without starting with stress. And part
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: of this is just a pr just battle. It's total bs.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: I think everybody that's watching this knows that the Democrats
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: are holding Americans hostage, and they want it to be painful,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: and they're hoping that it's ignorance. It will make you.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: I default blame President Donald Trump for this problem. I
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: think that they're hoping that they'll win the pr battle
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: because they know the media is behind them. They know
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: the media is in favor of this, and they're gonna
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: put misinformation out there. They're going to claim that ICE
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: agents aren't trained to do this job, and that you're
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: gonna get on a plane that's not safe because of
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: ICE agents that don't know what they're doing. We saw
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: that narrative today. Luckily you had the translation. Secretary Sean
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Duffy kicked that in the rear end. Now, it's very
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: frustrating by the way that this is where we are
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: in this country and how do we fight against it?
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: How do we fight against this misinformation, the disinformation the
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: lives are being put out there? Uh, it's I'll tell
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: you how you organize. You get together with other conservatives
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: and you go around the media to learn and to
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: work together, and they're how do you do that? There
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: are amazing conservative events that happen every year that are
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: a core to us surviving and thriving and fighting back
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: against the liberal media and the narratives that I just
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: described to you. One of those events is coming up
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  Speaker 1: this week. It is called SEAPACK, the Conservative Political Action Conference,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: and it used to be held in the Swamp. This
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: year it is coming to the Dallas Fort Worth area
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: this week in Texas, and that is going to be
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: really awesome for the people of Texas. And it's easier
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: for a lot of Americans to get to as well,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: multiple airports to fly into. Join me now to talk
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: about how you can be involved, watch it online or
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: show up and get a ticket. Is Matt Lappy as
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: the chairman of the man in charge of SEAPAC. Matt,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: always a pleasure to have you on tonight. There are
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: a lot of people that are listening right now in
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: the Texas area or in the flyover part of the country.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: As I just as the liberals the love describe it,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: you know, the deplorables of America. This Why did you
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: guys decide to move it to Texas? Let's start with that.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: This was usually too the Gaylord and right there in DC.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: This year you're moving into Texas. Tell me what made
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: that decision become a reality.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Well, the Ferguson family knows why, because I know where
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: you guys live, and everybody has abandoned Chicago and LA
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: and San Francisco and most recently New York City when
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: they elected this communist mayor of New York City. And
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: you know, quite honestly, we just elected a very dangerous
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: person to be the governor and the Attorney general of Virginia.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: So now you have the DC government, the Maryland government,
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: of Virginia government all on this woke agenda, and quite honestly, Ben,
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: they don't want us. They treat us terribly. It's very expensive,
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: they treat our guests terribly, and it's just you can't
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: do business in big blue, woke cities anymore. And I'm
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: tired of I'm tired of trying to make it work.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: And so We're going to go taste a little Free
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: in Texas and I'm excited about it.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be awesome for people that want to know
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: about the event, and it's again this week coming up.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: How where do they go a to get tickets? You guys,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: The ticket prices are incredibly reasonable for people to see
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: some amazing speakers and then talk also about the lineup
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: and the goal the theme for this year.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Well, I'll just say this. You know, we made a
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: present a promise to President Reagan are my fore bearers
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: a long time ago, basically saying that we keep Ceapack
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: affordable and especially for the young people. And I'm very
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: pleased that the organization is healthy and we do a
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: good job raising money from people who have resources so
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: that we can keep those ticket prices low. It's something
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: like forty seven bucks for the four days, so you know,
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: you can't get any ticket like that to anything, not
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: to a movie, not to anything. And there's even some
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: even greater discounts. And you know, I think it's gonna
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: be a who's who of who we want to hear from.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: First of all, I don't live in Texas, but this
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: corn in versus PAXTD runoff has been very interesting to watch,
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: a little scary to watch, and to me, I look
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: at that race. We haven't made an endorsement yet. We
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: will after we we're going to ask a straw pole question.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: So if you live in Texas, get to our event
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: and vote for your favorite candidate in the straw pole,
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: because you know, Washington shouldn't decide who the senator is
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: from Texas, and we need more senators who are going
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: to fight.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: There's there's no doubt about that talk about the lineup
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: as well off who people can see if they decide
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: to come to SEAPAC this year in the Dallas Fort
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Worth area.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let me just start right off with the President
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: and the Vice president. They've always, you know, they've come
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: every year the President has come. I don't even know
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: how many years in a row it's been. It's been wonderful.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: But these are unique times. Whether we call this a
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: war or a very serious military operation. I talked to
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: the President and told him everybody's going to understand if
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: he feels the need to kind of stay near uh
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: Kadier's phone, so to speak, with everything that's going on overseas,
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: and we pray for our troops, and I think most
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: of us wants to get the job done in Iran
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: and then get back home and uh And it's it's
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: a serious time. Beyond that, I mean, it's everyone you
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: want to know. I was pleased today to see that
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: the President of Poland's going to make a special trip
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: to come over and be with us in Texas. This
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: is someone who we campaigned for in Poland. He is
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: the Maga guy in Poland. President Nebrasky a great guy,
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: a boxer, a historian, really interesting person. So it's a
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: real honor to have him there. The other kind of
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: interesting thing internationally is this Crown Prince of Iran is
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: going to be with us, the son of the former Shaw.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a big announcement, by the way, and
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: he and he understands how important is to talk to
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: the people in the US right now. That's why he's
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: making this trip.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: That's right now. Look that could change too, depending on
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: events of what's going on in Iran. Obviously he's stating
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: very close to the people there. He might need to
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: travel through the country. But what a nice compliment it
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: is to the people in the conservative movement that these
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: leaders understand that, you know, they used to come over
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: and meet with the Council of Foreign Relations, Now that
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: come over and meet with Seapack. I just kind of
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: love it.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: No, it's incredible, it's it's a it's a really good event.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: I've been going for gosh, I say decades, I'm not kidding.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a great way to connect with other conservatives
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: as well. The lineup is unbelievable. How do people get tickets?
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Tell tell us what day it starts. When you need
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: to get in I know there's a lot of people
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: frustrating with the air travel. I know a lot of
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: people are actually going to be driving in. I actually damn
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: one of those because because it's just not worth it going. Yeah,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: I'm I'm literally gonna drive to the event this year,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: which I've never done before. But I was like, I
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: think it'll be faster than going to the airport three
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: hours early.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, look, when you fire at a Reagan airport,
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: it's always horrible. So maybe, uh, maybe maybe I'm a
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: little more immune to it. But it is a tough
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: time to fly. But the the you just go to
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: sepac dot org to get your tickets. It starts Wednesday.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: We have our international Summit. We'll have you know, a
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: dozen or so countries representative ambassadors, ministers are our Conservative
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: partners in these countries. We'll have a big reception after
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: the international Summit. Will start in earnest Thursday morning, bright
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: and early, prayer and pledge. And we're starting off with
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: Franklin Graham. And I'm very proud to have Franklin Graham
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: at Seapack. He's you know, he's a real hero of mine.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: So was his father. The whole family is. And he
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: really honors us with his presence, and I think he's
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: gonna have an important message for us.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be awesome. I will be speaking on Thursday,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: I think Thursday afternoon, and then you've got Friday Saudi.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Things wrap up then, and so it's gonna be awesome.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: One other thing I want to put on people's radar
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: screen is the Reagan Dinner. Who's going to be the
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: keynote this year at the Reagan Dinner and and people
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: can still get tickets for that as well.
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  Speaker 3: Well. I will warn you the Seapack changes till right
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: to the end. But we are really excited that Ken Paxton,
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: who's in this runoff to be the next Senator of Texas,
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: is going to be our keynote speaker. We have as
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: John Cornyan. He has not agreed to come. He should come.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: He should come. We'll treat him fairly. He should make
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: his case to conservatives. If you want to represent cars conservatives,
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: you should be able to go to Seapack and talk
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: to conservatives. And so we're looking forward to hearing what
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: Ken has to say. He has one hundred percent rating
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: with us, and it's going to be a great dinner.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: And there are tickets still available to that, but I
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: will warn everyone all these categories will sell out. They'll
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: sell out probably the next moof Fast.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: One more time, Matt, tell everybody where to go to
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: get tickets. And again, the tickets are incredibly affordable. I
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: love that about Seapack. You guys want people to be
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: able to come to this event. Where is it as well,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: so they can look at hotels.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: Okay, So go to seapack dot org. You can get
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: all the information. The main hotel is the Gay Lord
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: in grapevind so it's kind of between Dallas and Fort Worth,
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: but there's tons of hotels in the area at all
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: different kind of price points. As I said, my mom's
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: driving down from Witchdalk, Kansas with a friend of hers,
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: So there's people driving from all over the area that
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: have all kinds of you know, different economic levels, and
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: we're going to make sure that there are those options
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: for you. And the tickets to the basic ticket is
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: forty seven bucks for the four days, so nobody can
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: have an excuse that it was too expensive.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: I love it, Matt. I hope that a lot of
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: people listening here. We've got a lot of stations that
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: are in the in Texas and a lot that are
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: in the surrounding state. So I hope people take advantage
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: of this. I'll see you there. I'll be on stage
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: on Thursday afternoon as well. And like you said, you
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: never know who's going to show up, which is pretty awesome.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: Ben, Thanks for being with us and thanks for having
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: me on.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, grab your tickets out sea pack this week at
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: the Gaylord. It's going to be awesome in Dallas Fort
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Worth area. Grab it there. Don't forget to share this podcast,
• 29:54
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• 29:55
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