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Dems Panic as Trump Downsizes Government & Shuts Down Border · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: If people aren't coming to work, if they're not going
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  Speaker 1: to come into the office and report, then they're going
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  Speaker 1: to be terminated.
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  Speaker 2: You're not concerned though that if there could be shortages that.
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  Speaker 1: Keep, they'll be replaced with very competent people. We have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of competent people in this country.
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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  Speaker 4: Good Monday morning. It's Ben Ferguson. Nice to have you
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  Speaker 4: with us, and here are the big stories we're covering
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  Speaker 4: today on the forty seven Morning Update. First up, congratulations,
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  Speaker 4: your government's getting smallers. The Trump administration has begun mass
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  Speaker 4: layoffs across multiple federal agencies. How much money is it
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  Speaker 4: going to save you as a taxpayer. I'll have some
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  Speaker 4: of those figures for you coming up. Also, Donald Trump
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  Speaker 4: paying off on a massive promise from the campaign, putting
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  Speaker 4: the US on track to have the lowest monthly border
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  Speaker 4: crossings and more than a quarter of a century. And finally,
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump moves even closer to ending the war between
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  Speaker 4: Russia and Ukraine. And there's a very good chance to'll
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  Speaker 4: be meeting face to face with Vladimir Putin in the
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  Speaker 4: coming days. It's the forty seven Morning Update, and it
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  Speaker 4: starts right now.
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  Speaker 3: Story number one.
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  Speaker 4: Congratulations, your government just got smaller. The Trump administration has
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  Speaker 4: begun mass layoffs of federal workers, and the left is
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  Speaker 4: losing their mind because of a payoff. Donald Trump said
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  Speaker 4: that our government was way too bloated, and he's now
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  Speaker 4: proving his point. The administration beginning the mass layoffs across
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  Speaker 4: multiple federal agencies, a move that is expected to effect
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  Speaker 4: thousands and thousands of employees across the federal government.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 4: The firings initially affected probationary employees, recent hires who joined
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  Speaker 4: the federal workforce within the last one to two years,
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  Speaker 4: depending on the agency, which has fewer protections for those workers. Now,
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  Speaker 4: among the agencies experiencing layoffs are the Department of Education,
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  Speaker 4: the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, the Office of Personnel Management,
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  Speaker 4: the Environmental Protection Agency, the General Services Administration, and the
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  Speaker 4: Small Business Administration. This is just the beginning.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, the left is freaking out, saying that people
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  Speaker 4: are going to die if Donald tr Trump continues this
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  Speaker 4: way of doing business. They're now using the tragedy of
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  Speaker 4: the plane crash at Reagan National Airport as their springboard
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  Speaker 4: to fear monger Americans into believing that Donald Trump should
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  Speaker 4: fire no one. Take a listen to this from the
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  Speaker 4: Oval Office.
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  Speaker 2: You've offered over two million federal workers the option to
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  Speaker 2: resign immediately.
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  Speaker 1: There are fifty thousand FAA employees.
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  Speaker 5: Does this tragedy give you reason to reconsider that option
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  Speaker 5: of resignations because of concerns about staffing? Iss you in safety.
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  Speaker 1: If people aren't coming to work, if they're not going
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  Speaker 1: to come into the office and report as for the
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  Speaker 1: date that you know what it is, everybody knows what
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  Speaker 1: the data is, it's been very well documented, then they're
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  Speaker 1: going to be terminated.
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  Speaker 2: You're not concerned though that if many people take that offer,
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  Speaker 2: there could be shortages that could be.
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  Speaker 1: Too so they'll be replaced with very competent people. We
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of competent people in this country.
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  Speaker 4: There's one thing you can bet on it is that
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  Speaker 4: the media is never going to let a tragedy go
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  Speaker 4: to waste, including a plane crash, where they're going to
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  Speaker 4: then try to politicize it to attack President Trump. I
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  Speaker 4: love the way that he handled this saying if people
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  Speaker 4: aren't going to come to work, then they're going to
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  Speaker 4: be terminated and they'll be replaced with competent people. Now,
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  Speaker 4: why is the president doing this right now? Well, the
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  Speaker 4: Trump Administration's initiative is clear. They say it's to reduce
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  Speaker 4: the federal workforce through mass layoffs and restructuring, aimed to
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  Speaker 4: enhance government efficiency and reduce spending significantly. They say by
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  Speaker 4: streamlining operations and focusing on essential positions, the administration anticipates
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  Speaker 4: significant cost savings for tax payers. Now, the deferred Resignation
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  Speaker 4: program offers employees eight months of pay and benefits upon resignation,
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  Speaker 4: providing financial support during their transition. This approach is expected
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  Speaker 4: to foster a more performance driven workforce, something the government
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  Speaker 4: knows nothing about, as well as a culture aligning with
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  Speaker 4: the administration's goals of modernizing our federal operations. At the
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  Speaker 4: end of the day, this is also about saving taxpayers
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  Speaker 4: a significant amount of cash.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 4: DOJE also came out this last week giving an update
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  Speaker 4: on just how much money they are saving Americans. Here
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  Speaker 4: is a list that Donald Trump tweeted out telling you
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  Speaker 4: where your money was going to be spent, but they
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  Speaker 4: stopped it before it could happen. Ten million dollars for
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  Speaker 4: Mozambique voluntary medical mail Circumcision. Nine point seven million for
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  Speaker 4: the US Berkeley to develop a cohort of Cambodian youth
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  Speaker 4: within enterprise driven skills. Two point three million for strengthening
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  Speaker 4: independent voices in Cambodia, thirty two million for the Prague
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  Speaker 4: Civil Society Center, forty million for Gender Equality and Women
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  Speaker 4: Empowerment Hub, fourteen million for improving public procurement in Serbia.
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  Speaker 4: How about four hundred and eighty six million to the
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  Speaker 4: Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening, including twenty two
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  Speaker 4: million for quote inclusive and participationary political process in Moldova
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  Speaker 4: and twenty one million for voter turnout in India. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: none of that in America. Twenty nine million strengthening political
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  Speaker 4: landscape in Bangladesh, twenty million for fiscal federalism in Nepal,
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  Speaker 4: nineteen million for biodiversity conservation in Nepal, one point five
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  Speaker 4: million for voter confidence in Liberia, fourteen million for social
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  Speaker 4: cohesion and Mali. Two point five million for inclusive democracies
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  Speaker 4: in South Africa, forty seven million for improving learning outcomes
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  Speaker 4: in Asia, and two million to develop sustainable recycling models
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  Speaker 4: to increase socioeconomic cohesion among marginalized communities in Kosovo, Roma
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  Speaker 4: and Egypt. These are just some of the things that
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  Speaker 4: DOGE uncovered in the last five days that have all
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  Speaker 4: been cut by Donald Trump and the federal government. So
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  Speaker 4: not only are we getting rid of employees, we're also
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  Speaker 4: getting rid of government waste.
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  Speaker 3: Now story number two.
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  Speaker 4: When it comes to border security, it's very clear right
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  Speaker 4: now there are two Americas. The border is being secured
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  Speaker 4: before our very eyes and democratic duryas dictions are now
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  Speaker 4: turning a blind eye to illegal aliens and their activity.
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  Speaker 4: The good news is the Trump administration is still willing
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  Speaker 4: to go and get the illegal immigrants, even in sanctuary cities,
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  Speaker 4: and they're even willing to use the law to go
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  Speaker 4: after those that are protecting illegal immigrants. We also now
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  Speaker 4: have a major update about just how tight the border
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  Speaker 4: has become. In less than a month since Trump got
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  Speaker 4: into the Oval office, illegal border crossings have already hit
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  Speaker 4: a record low after Trump's swift crackdown, and could be
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  Speaker 4: on track for levels not seen in sixty years. So
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  Speaker 4: far in February, about three hundred and fifty nine illegal
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  Speaker 4: migrants per day have been caught across the entire southern border.
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  Speaker 4: That is down more than ninety percent from February of
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  Speaker 4: last year, with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had their
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  Speaker 4: open border policy on full display. That puts the US
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  Speaker 4: on track to have the lowest monthly border crossings in
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  Speaker 4: at least a quarter of a century if the trend continues.
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  Speaker 4: The number of illegal migrants coming into the US had
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  Speaker 4: had a level not seen since nineteen sixty eight, nearly
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  Speaker 4: sixty years ago. What's even more interesting than that is
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  Speaker 4: how Democrats are doing everything in their power to attack
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump and the borders are Tom Homan. Tom went
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  Speaker 4: on Fox and Friends and had this to say about
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  Speaker 4: the President's leadership and what it means for the people
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  Speaker 4: in America.
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  Speaker 5: President's doing a great job. And I want to say this. Look,
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  Speaker 5: I worked for six presidents. I think President Trump's the
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  Speaker 5: greatest president in my lifetime. He proves it every day.
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  Speaker 5: Every day he proves to me why he is the
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  Speaker 5: greatest president in my lifetime. Border numbers are down over
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  Speaker 5: ninety percent in three weeks. Think about that. You know,
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  Speaker 5: I worked tired of it. You know, Christinolan's working hard
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  Speaker 5: at it. You know, the border, the chief of Trolley's
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  Speaker 5: working hard at what it was it was President Trump's
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  Speaker 5: executive orders that was a game changer, right, And we
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  Speaker 5: already got over fIF six almost sixteen thousand people we
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  Speaker 5: rest in the interior. That's three times more than Joe
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  Speaker 5: Biden had year from now. But it's not enough. We
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  Speaker 5: got to do more. But President thumps leadership. When you
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  Speaker 5: when you get ninety percent less people coming across the border,
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  Speaker 5: how many women aren't being raped by the cartels, how
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  Speaker 5: many children aren't drawing? How many how many women and
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  Speaker 5: children aren't being sex tracked in this country. President Trump's
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  Speaker 5: a game changer. And every day I'll say, I'll say
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  Speaker 5: one hundred times every day he proves to me why he's.
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  Speaker 4: The greatest president in my lifetime, with you, why he's
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  Speaker 4: the greatest president of my lifetime. Border numbers are down
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  Speaker 4: over ninety percent in three weeks. It is incredible when
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  Speaker 4: you hear these numbers come from the borders are now.
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  Speaker 4: To be clear, Democrats are not going down without a fight.
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  Speaker 4: They're doing everything they can to undermine a secure border,
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  Speaker 4: and they're doing everything they can to protect illegal immigrants.
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  Speaker 4: The Mallusion at Fox said this about what some Democrats
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  Speaker 4: are doing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Dan, it's hard to believe there are any jurisdictions
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  Speaker 2: out there that wouldn't cooperate with ICE when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to illegal aliens charged with forcibly raping children, But in
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  Speaker 2: Massachusetts it's just routine. Take a look at this case.
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  Speaker 2: ICE Boston just announcing they arrested this squadmal in illegal
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  Speaker 2: alien charge in Massachusetts with three acounts of aggravated child
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  Speaker 2: rape in three counts of forcible rape of a child.
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  Speaker 2: So the question is why was he on the streets
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  Speaker 2: right well, I says their detainer request on him was
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  Speaker 2: ignored by the Essex County Superior Court due to sanctuary policy.
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  Speaker 2: The locals released him in the community on bail without
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  Speaker 2: any notice to ICE. In a statement, the director of
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  Speaker 2: ICE Boston says, in part quote, Jose Fernando Perez has
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  Speaker 2: been charged with some horrific rhymes against a minor in
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  Speaker 2: our commonwealth. He is exactly the type of alien we
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  Speaker 2: are targeting with our worst first policy. He posts a
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  Speaker 2: significant danger to the children of Massachusetts and we will
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  Speaker 2: not tolerate such a threat to our community. ICE Boston
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  Speaker 2: also announcing the arrest of this Turkish illegal alien charged
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  Speaker 2: in Massachusetts with a Sultan battery against an intellectually disabled
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  Speaker 2: person and witness intimidation. But I says their detainer on
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  Speaker 2: him was also ignored by the sanctuary city of Somerville.
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  Speaker 2: He had also been released into the public elsewhere around
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  Speaker 2: the US. ICE Seattle arrested this Salvadoran illegal alien wanted
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  Speaker 2: in his home country for aggravated hamas. Here in Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 2: ICE arrested this Guatemalan illegal alien charged with sexual assault
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  Speaker 2: and rape with a gun. And in Colorado, the DEA
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  Speaker 2: announced their top ten arrests of illegal immigrants in recent days,
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  Speaker 2: including several affiliated with Trendy Aragua and others with egregious
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  Speaker 2: crimes like kidnapping, child sexual assault, and fentanyl trafficking and Dana.
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  Speaker 2: I was talking to a law enforcement source in Massachusetts
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  Speaker 2: about the child rape case that I referenced, and I asked, like,
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  Speaker 2: there's got to be some sort of a catch here, right,
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  Speaker 2: forget about cooperating with ICE. How does somebody charge with
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  Speaker 2: so many counts of aggravated forcible child rape even get
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  Speaker 2: released on bail in the first place. The response I
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  Speaker 2: got was, quote, welcome to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 4: It is very clear that these liberal states are willing
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  Speaker 4: to put their own citizens and children at risk just
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  Speaker 4: to say no to a secure border, because it's what
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump and the American people want.
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  Speaker 3: And lastly, story number three.
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  Speaker 4: President Trump made it very clear when he was running
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  Speaker 4: for president that if he was elected, he was going
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  Speaker 4: to end the senseless war between Ussia and Ukraine. Not
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  Speaker 4: only is it counting countless innocent people's lives, but it's
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  Speaker 4: also costing America billions and billions of dollars. There's many
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  Speaker 4: Republican warhawks and Democrats are obsessed with funding this war
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  Speaker 4: and with making sure there's no end in sight. Donald
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  Speaker 4: Trump has other plans promising that he would end it.
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  Speaker 4: And now we have learned as of Sunday that he
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  Speaker 4: could meet quote very soon with Vladimir putin face to face,
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  Speaker 4: adding he believes his Russian counterpart genuinely wants to stop
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  Speaker 4: fighting in Ukraine. Quote no time set, but it could
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  Speaker 4: be very soon, Trump told reporters hours after the Secretary
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  Speaker 4: of State Marco Rubio sought the play down expectations of
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  Speaker 4: upcoming high level talks and ending the war altogether. Now,
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  Speaker 4: with Rubio set to lead this high level American delegation
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  Speaker 4: and the discussions with Russian officials in Saudi Arabia's capital.
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  Speaker 4: In the coming days. A flurry of diplomacy was taking
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  Speaker 4: place as the brutal Ukraine War nears its third anniversary. Trump,
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  Speaker 4: addressing reporters after a flat on Air Force one, said
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  Speaker 4: his team has been speaking long and hard with Russian officials,
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  Speaker 4: including his Middle East envoy, whom the president said met
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  Speaker 4: with Putin for about three hours recently, saying this, I
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  Speaker 4: think he wants to stop fighting, Trump said of Putin,
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  Speaker 4: ask whether he believes Putin wants to seize the entirety
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  Speaker 4: of Ukraine. Trump said that was my question to him.
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  Speaker 4: If he's going to go on, that would have caused
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  Speaker 4: me a big problem. Trump added, I think he wants
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  Speaker 4: to end it, and they want to end it fast,
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  Speaker 4: both of them, he said, adding Zelensky wants to end
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  Speaker 4: it two the Ukrainian president. Zelenski meanwhile said Sunday he
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  Speaker 4: believes Russia's preparing to quote wage war against a week
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  Speaker 4: in NATO, should Trump dilute US support for the alliance.
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  Speaker 4: Trump appeared to dismiss Zelenski's remarks, telling reporters that he
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  Speaker 4: was not even a little bit concerned about the Ukrainian
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  Speaker 4: leader's messaging. President Trump has been very clear and he
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  Speaker 4: has constantly insisted that he would end the Ukrainian in
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  Speaker 4: a single day if you return to the White House,
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  Speaker 4: Rubio stressing yes, he believes this could come to an end.
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  Speaker 4: At the end of the day, it's all about the money,
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  Speaker 4: and Donald Trump is clearly telegraphing to Zolensky and Ukraine
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  Speaker 4: that the money and the arms are going to be
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  Speaker 4: drawing up very soon, so you better get your act together.
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