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How Teachers’ Unions, Media Rhetoric & Radical Politics Lit the Fuse for Political Violence” · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: There have been three different assassination attempts on President Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump where bullets have been fired. We also know that
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Speaker 1: there was another assassination attempt on the President of the
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Speaker 1: United States of America by a man that decided to
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Speaker 1: bring a shotgun as well as other weapons. That would
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Speaker 1: be for a total of four different assassination attempts on
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Speaker 1: President Trump that we know about. The question is why
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Speaker 1: is this happening and could it be because the left
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Speaker 1: has taken over the education system and is radicalizing people
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Speaker 1: to hate Conservatives, to take Christians, and to hate Donald Trump. Well,
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Speaker 1: a watchdog group has now released a pair of reports
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Speaker 1: exposing how America's teachers' union, Yes, the teachers' unions that
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Speaker 1: control our public education across the US, have funneled now
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Speaker 1: more than one billion dollars to left wing political causes
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Speaker 1: over the last decade. So let me start with a
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Speaker 1: question that every American should be asking. What happens when
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Speaker 1: the institutions that we're supposed to trust to educate our
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Speaker 1: kids become some of the biggest political players in the
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Speaker 1: country At the exact same time, our politics are becoming
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Speaker 1: so extreme that the president United States of America is
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Speaker 1: now on a regular schedule of assassination attempts an essence
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Speaker 1: while in office, because that's really where we are today.
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Speaker 1: It may be the inconvenient truth, but it is the
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Speaker 1: nation's largest teachers' unions, like the National Education Association and
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Speaker 1: the American Federation of Teachers, they know what they're doing.
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Speaker 1: They're pouring more than one billion into left winning political
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Speaker 1: causes and activism, more than a billion dollars. I want
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Speaker 1: you to really think about how much money that is.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: This isn't small dollar advocacy. This isn't occasional political engagement
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Speaker 1: by the teachers' unions, which teachers should be nonpartisan. They
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Speaker 1: should be teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic, which, by the way,
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Speaker 1: statistically they're failing this country and we're at the lowest
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Speaker 1: of nations that we compare ourselves to and reading, writing,
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Speaker 1: and arithmetic in some categories when it comes to civilized nations,
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Speaker 1: we are at the bottom of the barrel. And it
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Speaker 1: may be because all of these teachers unions are hiring,
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Speaker 1: supporting and advocating to become in doctor nation schools instead
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Speaker 1: of actually teaching children in education. And all you have
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Speaker 1: to do is follow the money. When you look at
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Speaker 1: the full scale political influence that these teachers' unions are
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Speaker 1: involved in. It should honestly be against the law. When
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Speaker 1: you break down where that money's going going, the picture
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Speaker 1: becomes even more clear what they believe in. These unions
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Speaker 1: are bankrolling political campaigns overwhelming for Democrat people running for office, Socialists, Marxists,
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Speaker 1: and communists. And it's not just people running for office.
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Speaker 1: They're also funding the most extreme activist groups of the
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Speaker 1: progressive agenda. They're backing ballot initiatives on issues far outside
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Speaker 1: and beyond education, and they're spending heavily on lobbying to
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Speaker 1: influence legislation to protect their indoctrination of our children in
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Speaker 1: this country. I go back to the core point. This
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Speaker 1: isn't about mass scores, this isn't about reading levels. It's
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Speaker 1: literally about political indoctrination. And these organizations have become some
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Speaker 1: of the most powerful political machines in this country. They're
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Speaker 1: using their resources that many teachers themselves are required to
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Speaker 1: contribute through dues, and if you don't that is called cool.
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Speaker 1: By the way, then you're on the outs with a teachers' union.
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Speaker 1: Good luck getting a job or a promotion. These teachers,
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Speaker 1: many of them, are forced to give to the teachers' unions. Now,
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Speaker 1: this isn't about the classroom anymore at all. They're not
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Speaker 1: even trying to hide it. Think about what's not being
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Speaker 1: funded when a billion dollars goes into political activism. The
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Speaker 1: money is not going to fixing our struggling schools. It's
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Speaker 1: not going to reduce class sizes. It's not even going
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Speaker 1: to increase teacher salaries directly, or even help students catch
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Speaker 1: up after they missed school and went way behind where
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Speaker 1: they should be after COVID.
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Speaker 2: No, no, no, no no.
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Speaker 1: Instead, it's being directed into shaping the political landscape of
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Speaker 1: this country. And that should raise a serious question. When
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Speaker 1: did teachers and the union stop being about education and
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Speaker 1: start being about ideology. Well, Democrats clearly decide they were
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Speaker 1: going to play.
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Speaker 2: The long game.
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Speaker 1: They were going to control the minds of our children
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Speaker 1: at the education levels of elementary school and then middle
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Speaker 1: school and then junior high and then high school. And
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Speaker 1: then they started dumping big money into in our universities.
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Speaker 1: This is the game plan. And then you look at
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Speaker 1: what they've accomplished in politics. Twenty five percent of Democrats
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Speaker 1: now believe that political violence is justified and acceptable why
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Speaker 1: when you grow a generation through the education system to
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Speaker 1: be ashamed of this country, to hate America, and to
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Speaker 1: believe that if they're not getting their way and you
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Speaker 1: do not bow down to their beliefs, they can then
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Speaker 1: literally kill you to get rid of you as a roadblock.
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Speaker 1: The rhetoric is getting sharper, and the bullets are flying,
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Speaker 1: and the lines, well, they're getting more extreme. The recent
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Speaker 1: polling paints this troubling picture. A significant portion of actual
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Speaker 1: American voters. We're talking about millions of voters, twenty five
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Speaker 1: percent of the Democratic Party say political violence can be justified.
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Speaker 1: Now just stop for a moment and think about this
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Speaker 1: late assassination attempt on President Trump. How do we get
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Speaker 1: to the point or millions and millions of Americans one
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Speaker 1: in four think that it's okay to kill someone, to
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Speaker 1: hurt someone because they voted for something you disagree with.
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Speaker 2: Now that's not some fringe entitlement on the internet.
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Speaker 1: That's a real, measurable slice of the American population, the
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Speaker 1: American electorate. And no matter your politics, whether you're Republican,
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Speaker 1: a Democrat, an independent, you should be terrified knowing that
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Speaker 1: in the United States of America, one out of four
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Speaker 1: Democratic voters thinks they can kill you if they don't
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Speaker 1: like what you're saying. Because once people start believing that
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Speaker 1: violence is a legitimate answer, a legitimate political tool, we
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Speaker 1: are no longer or justtibating ideas. We're entering a new
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Speaker 1: dangerous territory. It's basically a coup whenever you want it,
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Speaker 1: and it's time that we're honest about connecting these dots.
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Speaker 1: It is, in fact, the education system is breeding a
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Speaker 1: generation to hate this country. And when you have massive
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Speaker 1: financial power from the teachers' unions, that money is now
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Speaker 1: flowing heavily into one side of the political spectrum, and
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Speaker 1: a growing acceptance, at least among some of extreme tactics,
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Speaker 1: including assassinating a sitting president. So that brings up the
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Speaker 1: big question what kind of environment has it left created?
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Speaker 1: Because these institutions, they don't just reflect culture, they literally
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Speaker 1: shape it. And that's why Democrats chose years ago to
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Speaker 1: take over our education systems and they've done it completely.
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Speaker 1: And when organizations tied directly by the way to our
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Speaker 1: schools are deeply involved and the radical partisan politics, what
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Speaker 1: happens then, well, what gets emphasized in the classroom is
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Speaker 1: what they believe. It's how literally the books are written,
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Speaker 1: It's how the issues are framed, it's how the papers
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Speaker 1: are assigned, it's how the discussions are organized, and it's
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Speaker 1: how the next generation then understands America and politics itself.
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Speaker 1: So the message that we all need to understand right
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Speaker 1: now is this, If major institutions are fully engaged in
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Speaker 1: partisan battles with our tax dours and pouring massive resources
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Speaker 1: into ideological causes, while part of the political base are
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Speaker 1: becoming more accepting of this extreme rhetoric, then what are
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Speaker 1: we actually teaching our kids? What are we teaching them directly,
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Speaker 1: and also what are we teaching them indirectly? Are we
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Speaker 1: teaching debate? No, what we are teaching is violence. We're
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Speaker 1: teaching literal division. Are we encouraging critical thinking?
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 1: If you're enforcing and reinforcing that your political ideology is
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Speaker 1: supreme over all others, there is no grand debate and
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Speaker 1: if the other side wins, you just kill them. Because
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Speaker 1: kids are watching all of this, they're absorbing everything in
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Speaker 1: the classroom and then they're forming their own understanding of
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Speaker 1: how the world works, how America works. Now, hopefully this
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Speaker 1: is a wake up call for parents. It's why we're
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Speaker 1: seeing in some places in the country, parents are showing
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Speaker 1: up by the thousands at school board meetings across this country,
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Speaker 1: not because they want to fight with teachers, because now
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Speaker 1: they're demanding answers. They're asking the basic questions we should
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Speaker 1: have been asking years ago. Why is education becoming a
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Speaker 1: political indoctrination. Why are unions spending billions on issues outside
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Speaker 1: of the classroom, And why does it feel like ideology
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Speaker 1: is creeping into spaces that used to be and are
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Speaker 1: supposed to be rule. These aren't unreasonable questions, they're basic
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Speaker 1: accountability questions. We also know there's some simple truth. Money
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Speaker 1: and power, Well, they're one and the same, and when
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Speaker 1: you have both, when they're used for evil, there are
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Speaker 1: real consequences.
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Speaker 2: Money.
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Speaker 1: Power is either a positive or a negative. And what
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Speaker 1: we're witnessing right now is when the left spends a
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Speaker 1: billion dollars on politics, not only they gain hearts and
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Speaker 1: minds and influence, but when they gain that influence, they're
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Speaker 1: now shaping the outcome of what happens next. And when
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Speaker 1: you shape those outcomes, demanding that there is political violence,
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Speaker 1: that's exactly what is happening right now. So if you
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Speaker 1: want to know why a guy by the name of
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump got shot at. Yet again, let's be clear,
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Speaker 1: it is because of what these kids have been indoctrinated
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Speaker 1: to believe. It is because the radical left now has
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Speaker 1: convinced twenty five percent of their own party, and that
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Speaker 1: number actually may be higher. There's some that may have
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Speaker 1: lied to the pollsters, not really wanting to say out
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Speaker 1: loud that they believe in political violence, but that those
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Speaker 1: that laugh about when the president gets shot, saying they
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Speaker 1: wish the shooter would have been better at it. You
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Speaker 1: know those people you see on social media that hide
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Speaker 1: behind their computer screens. So here we are a third
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Speaker 1: assassination attempt others we don't know about that were foiled
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Speaker 1: before they became actual plans that were actually taken to
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Speaker 1: the president, and a teacher's union or unions that are
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Speaker 1: spending more than a billion dollars to influence the minds
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Speaker 1: of our children to think and believe that killing someone
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Speaker 1: you disagree with is warranted, is just, is appropriate. That
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Speaker 1: is how we've gotten to where we are today. Time
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Speaker 1: there was another assassination attempt on the President of the
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Speaker 1: United States of America, Donald Trump, and the question everyone
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Speaker 1: should be asking is Why does this keep happening? Could
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Speaker 1: it be because we have now normalized political violence because
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Speaker 1: of the media, late night TV, and the radical left.
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Speaker 1: Just hours before the President of the United States of
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Speaker 1: America attended with the First Lady the White House Correspondence
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Speaker 1: dinner on late night TV, Jimmy Kimmel decided to have
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Speaker 1: a fake White House Correspondence dinner segment, and this is
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Speaker 1: what he said, after putting a picture of Milania Trump
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Speaker 1: up on the screen.
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Speaker 4: Our First Lady, Milania is here.
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Speaker 2: Look at most so beautiful.
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Speaker 4: Missus Trump.
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Speaker 5: You have a glow like an expectant widow.
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Speaker 1: That is the man of late night TV, Jimmy Kimmel.
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Speaker 1: Has he taken those words back?
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Speaker 3: No?
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Speaker 2: Has he apologized for those words.
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Speaker 1: No, even the president hours after the assassination attempt on
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Speaker 1: his life with an active shooter, the President sat down
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Speaker 1: with sixty minutes to try to bring the country together.
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Speaker 1: But what at Nora O'Donnell, supposed to be one of
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Speaker 1: the true journalists left in journalism, What did she have
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Speaker 1: to say? She went back to the talking points that
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Speaker 1: make Americans hate President Trump, a talking point the left
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Speaker 1: is used to radicalize individuals, just like this shooter at
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Speaker 1: the White House correspondence dinner and bringing up the fact
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Speaker 1: that Donald Trump is a king that you know, of
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Speaker 1: course should be taken out.
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Speaker 3: He had attended a no King's protest in California. Kings,
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Speaker 3: what did security tell you about.
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Speaker 4: People like that? As you have people doing no kings?
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Speaker 5: I'm not a king?
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Speaker 2: What I am?
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Speaker 4: If I was a king, I wouldn't be dealing with you.
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Speaker 1: If I was a king, I wouldn't be dealing with you.
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Speaker 1: Could it be that people like Hakim Jeffries could be
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Speaker 1: part of the problem, or could it be that it's
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Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi that is part of the Could it be
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Speaker 1: Democrats in general on TV that are part of the
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Speaker 1: problem that are supposed to be journalists and commentators. I'm
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Speaker 1: going to go back to how we got to this point.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to play for you a montage of Democrats
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Speaker 1: on TV and elected officials calling for political violence, over
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Speaker 1: and over and over and over again.
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Speaker 3: I just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all
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Speaker 3: of the country.
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Speaker 4: Maybe there will be. People need to start taking to
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Speaker 4: the streets. This is a dictator, you know.
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Speaker 3: There needs to be unrest in the streets for as
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Speaker 3: long as there's unrest in our lives. Enemies of the state.
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Speaker 4: Show me where it says that protests are supposed to
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Speaker 4: be polite and peaceful. Do something about your dad's immigrational
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Speaker 4: practices effectless time they go.
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Speaker 1: Low, How do you resist the temptation to run up
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Speaker 1: and wring her neck?
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Speaker 5: Biggest tarf threat in this country is white men, most
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Speaker 5: of them radicalized.
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Speaker 3: Right to the right.
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Speaker 1: I thought should have punched him in the face.
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Speaker 2: Even if you lost.
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Speaker 4: He insulted your wife, he's on the escalator and called
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Speaker 4: Mexican's rapist. Emmerged. He said, well, what do you think
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Speaker 4: I should dine? So I think you should have punched
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Speaker 4: him in the face and then gotten out of the race.
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Speaker 4: You would have been a hero.
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Speaker 3: I'd like to punch him in the face, I said,
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Speaker 3: if we're in high school, I'd take him behind the
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Speaker 3: gym and beat the hell out of him.
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Speaker 2: Punch some people in the face.
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Speaker 4: When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?
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Speaker 4: They're still going to have to go out and put
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Speaker 4: a bullet in Donald Trump. And that's a fact.
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Speaker 2: Look is his character is stabbed to death. Where is
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Speaker 2: John Wilkes's booth when you need it?
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Speaker 3: I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the
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Speaker 3: White House.
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Speaker 4: A Missouri state senator is under investigation by the Secret
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Speaker 4: Service after saying she hopes President Trump is assassinatees.
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Speaker 3: I will go and take Trump out to night.
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Speaker 1: And if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant,
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Speaker 1: in a dead mistake at a gasol station, you.
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Speaker 2: Get out and you play a good and you put.
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Speaker 4: Back on them and you tell.
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Speaker 2: Them then, well, God anyway anywhere.
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Speaker 3: And sadly, the domestic enemies to our voting system and
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Speaker 3: are honoring our constitution are right at sixteen hundred Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Speaker 1: They're not going to stop before election day in November,
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Speaker 1: and they're not going to stop after election day.
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Speaker 4: And that should be everyone should take note of that
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Speaker 4: on both levels, that this is they're not going to
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Speaker 4: let up, and they should not. If you've take me
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Speaker 4: well now and see nothing yet.
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Speaker 1: Could it be that we got to where we are
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Speaker 1: right now because of the Democrats trying to inspire people
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Speaker 1: to do exactly this. Could it be people like Hassan
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Speaker 1: Piker in a New York Times interview saying this, this
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Speaker 1: is the same man that Democrats are asking to come
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Speaker 1: campaign with them. By the way, when I'm about to
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Speaker 1: play with you, for you was just four days ago.
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Speaker 1: Don't pretend you oppose political violence if you're promoting in
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Speaker 1: the Democratic Party this type of insanity.
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Speaker 5: Engels wrote about the concept of social murder and Brian Thompson,
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Speaker 5: as the United Healthcare CEO, was engaging in a tremendous
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Speaker 5: amount of social murder, the systematized forms of violence, the
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Speaker 5: structural violence of poverty, the for profit, paywalled system of
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Speaker 5: healthcare in this country, and the consequences of that are
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Speaker 5: tremendous amounts of pain, tremendous amounts of violence, tremendous amounts
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Speaker 5: of deaths. And that was a fascinating story for me
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Speaker 5: because America's very draconian about crime and punishment. They're very
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Speaker 5: black and white on this issue. And yet because of
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Speaker 5: the pervasive pain that the private healthcare system had created
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Speaker 5: for the average American, I saw so many people immediately
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Speaker 5: understand why this death had taken place.
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Speaker 2: That is an individual.
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Speaker 1: Hassim Picker says that many understand why MANNGIONI killed a
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Speaker 1: United Healthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, because Thomps himself was guilty
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Speaker 1: of what he described as social murder. You go back
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Speaker 1: to these Democrats, You go back to what we found
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Speaker 1: out about the Southern Poverty Law Center, Southern Poverty Law
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Speaker 1: Center giving money to klansmen so they can go out
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Speaker 1: there and commit crimes. Hassan Piker, go back to him,
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Speaker 1: He said, kill the mother blankers, let the streets soak
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Speaker 1: in their red capitalist blood. Three days ago, the New
18:47
Speaker 1: York Times promoted him Michigan Democrats how to Convention. A
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Speaker 1: week ago, there were dolls with a noose around the
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Speaker 1: neck of Donald Trump. That was three days ago. The terrorists,
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Speaker 1: by the way, wrote in the manifesto that his motive
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Speaker 1: was quote, I'm no longer willing to permit a pedophile,
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Speaker 1: a rapist, a trader to coat my hands with his crimes.
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Speaker 2: He set.
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Speaker 1: His targets were administration officials, not including mister Patel. They
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Speaker 1: are targets prioritized from high ranking to the lowest. Three
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Speaker 1: hours ago, what did Barack Obama say, Although we don't
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Speaker 1: have yet the details about the most behind last night
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Speaker 1: shooting at the White House correspondence dinner, it's incumbent upon
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Speaker 1: us all to reject the idea that violence has any
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Speaker 1: place in our democracy. It's also sobering reminder of the
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Speaker 1: courage and sacrifice referring to those men and women in uniform.
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Speaker 1: So let me get this straight. We know the motive,
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Speaker 1: we know what was said in the manifesto. But Barack
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Speaker 1: Obama tells the world and Americans tells Americans that we
19:48
Speaker 1: don't know the motive when we clearly do. This is
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Speaker 1: the Democratic Party in twenty twenty six. Do you want
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Speaker 1: to know why this happened? This is why it happened.
19:57
Speaker 1: We've been talking a lot about fraud, waste, and abuse,
20:00
Speaker 1: and we know exactly what has happened with the Quality
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Speaker 1: Leering Center in Minnesota. But it's not just the fraud
20:08
Speaker 1: and the FBI ratings twenty plus places in Minnesota. It
20:13
Speaker 1: now seems that the administration is focusing on a lot
20:17
Speaker 1: of other fraudile and activity. Some of it even involves
20:21
Speaker 1: food stamps. And there was a very interesting article that
20:24
Speaker 1: was written about the number of recipients of food stamps
20:27
Speaker 1: that are actually driving ferraris. I'm not talking about just
20:31
Speaker 1: like one, We're talking about a lot. We're also talking
20:35
Speaker 1: about people driving Lamborghini's and Bentley's and range drovers and Porsches. Yes,
20:41
Speaker 1: getting food stamps center. Cruz and I talked about that earlier,
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Speaker 1: and I want you to hear what he had to
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Speaker 1: say about what the government's going to do next and
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Speaker 1: what you can expect. I want to move center on
20:53
Speaker 1: to another topic, and that is some good news for
20:55
Speaker 1: people that are sick and tired of seeing crimes committed
20:58
Speaker 1: in one actual action actually when it comes to taxpayer
21:01
Speaker 1: dollars disappearing by the tens of billions, and now we
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Speaker 1: have the FBI that has rated the Minneapolis fraud ridden
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Speaker 1: care centers. Twenty plus of these that were actually raided
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Speaker 1: by the FBI, including the famous children's leering center that
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Speaker 1: was supposed to say on their sign learning but it
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Speaker 1: was just a leering center.
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Speaker 2: That one was rated as well. And I am.
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Speaker 1: Excited to just say, at least it looks like now
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Speaker 1: we're getting some real action into stopping this fraud, into
21:34
Speaker 1: showing that if you take away taxpayer dollars this way
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Speaker 1: and you send it to terrorist organizations like als Chabab,
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Speaker 1: and you bribe democrats to look the other way, like
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Speaker 1: Governor Waltz, but with campaign contributions, somebody is at least
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Speaker 1: going to come in and actually hold you accountable.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 4: Look, I'm very glad that there is finally going to
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Speaker 4: be some accountability. Twenty two locations in Minneapolis rated by
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Speaker 4: the FBI this week. You mentioned the Quality Learing Center.
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Speaker 4: Of course, their most proud graduate, Ilhan Omar, who actually
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Speaker 4: is not technical.
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Speaker 1: We had worl War eleven yesterday. Did you know about that?
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Speaker 1: We got eleven war wars? That's impressive stuff. I didn't
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Speaker 1: think the King of England knew that.
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Speaker 4: It really is stunning. So she was giving a speech
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Speaker 4: and the speech referenced World War two, but the two
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Speaker 4: is two Roman numerals, and that's you know, how you
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Speaker 4: normally write world War two, And she read that as
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Speaker 4: World War eleven, yes now.
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Speaker 1: And didn't like correct herself, just owned it and kept
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Speaker 1: going like it was not like if you or I
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Speaker 1: did that. And by the way, if you've ever read
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Speaker 1: a speech and you're tired or you're just kind of
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Speaker 1: it's a long day, you can you might, but you
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Speaker 1: immediately correct it. She had no clue, no idea.
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Speaker 4: Look, look, there's a level of ignorance there. If a
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Speaker 4: ninth grader thought World War two was World War eleven,
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Speaker 4: you would flunk that ninth grader I mean, you think
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Speaker 4: about it years too.
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Speaker 1: Nowadays we'll just socially just pass them on in our
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Speaker 1: public lie back in the good old days, you'd fail.
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Speaker 4: Look, look, Elhan Omar is one of the leading Democrats.
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Speaker 4: She and AOC and I mean the crazy squad is
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Speaker 4: driving the agenda of Democrats today. And the level of
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Speaker 4: ignorance of basic world history is really stunning. And Omar
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Speaker 4: was also integral in covering up the Somali fraud in Minnesota.
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Speaker 4: She was a beneficiary of it. She was elected by
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Speaker 4: the fraudsters. The Somali voting base is her core base.
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Speaker 4: Their money helped elect her, their votes did elect her.
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Speaker 4: And she and Tim Watson the governor, and Keith Ellison
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Speaker 4: the Age, they were all absolutely involved in the cover up.
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Speaker 4: They had every incentive. It was corrupt, and we're talking
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Speaker 4: over nine billion dollars of taxpayer money swindled away. And
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Speaker 4: so here's what Fox News report ordered about the raids.
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Speaker 4: Federal authorities rated more than twenty locations, including child care facilities,
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Speaker 4: in Minneapolis on Tuesday as part of a sweeping fraud
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Speaker 4: investigation into largely Somali owned businesses. Sources confirmed to Fox
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Speaker 4: News quote today the FBI, with federal, state, and local
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Speaker 4: law enforcement, is involved in court authorized law enforcement activity
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Speaker 4: as part of an ongoing fraud investigation. A Department of
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Speaker 4: Justice spokesperson said authorities executed twenty two federal search warrants
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Speaker 4: in Minnesota on Tuesday morning as part of the operation,
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Speaker 4: which is not immigration related. Sources said the raids center
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Speaker 4: on federal fraud investigations into largely Somali owned businesses, including
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Speaker 4: child care facilities that registered their daycare with the state
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Speaker 4: but were allegedly billing for care that was not provided.
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Speaker 4: Sources told Fox News that two of the raids were
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Speaker 4: conducted at the Quality Leering Center and Baby haleim No Childcare,
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Speaker 4: both in Minneapolis. Vice President JD Vance addressed the raids
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Speaker 4: a post on x, writing, the task Force of the
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Speaker 4: DOJ will be relentless and exposing these fraudsters wherever they
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Speaker 4: may be hiding. Governor Tim Waltz, this is you you
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Speaker 4: want to talk about. Amazing hotspot said. The raids were
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Speaker 4: carried out by federal and state law enforcement after state
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Speaker 4: agencies quote caught irregular behavior and reported it. Quote. If
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Speaker 4: you commit fraud in Minnesota, You're going to get caught
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Speaker 4: and that's exactly what we saw today. We catch criminals
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Speaker 4: when state and federal agencies share information, join investigations work,
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Speaker 4: and securing justice depends upon it. Now that truly is
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Speaker 4: stunning because Waltz, his entire governorship, has looked the other
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Speaker 4: way on massive fraud, has refused to investigate it, has
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Speaker 4: profited from it, has been elected by it, has taken
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Speaker 4: campaign donations from it. The entire Democrat machiney was built
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Speaker 4: on fraud. And now he's taking credit. That really is
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Speaker 4: like the arsonists taking credit when the firefighters turn up
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Speaker 4: and put out the fire.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it really is.
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Speaker 1: And it's all because now he's not running for reelection, right,
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Speaker 1: so he can just be like, oh, we're rooting out
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Speaker 1: fraud and try to I guess rebuild his legacy. So
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Speaker 1: maybe he can have a grand comeback one day. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if that's going to work. There's one aspect
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Speaker 1: of this though center that excites me, and it's the
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Speaker 1: fact that it's clear this is the beginning, not the end,
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Speaker 1: based on what was said by the DOJ, like this
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Speaker 1: is the tip of the iceberg, We're going to the
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Speaker 1: catalyst point. And then there's been directives at all states,
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Speaker 1: including Republican led states to start looking at waste fraud
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Speaker 1: and abuse.
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Speaker 2: They're looking at California.
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Speaker 1: I think you're going to see more people that are
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Speaker 1: going to be indicted and more places that are going
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Speaker 1: to be rated outside of Minnesota. That is exactly what
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Speaker 1: the American people voted for, which was to get rid
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Speaker 1: of waste, fraud and abuse.
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Speaker 4: That is exactly right. And I will out also that
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Speaker 4: other Blue states are coming. California is coming. I have
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Speaker 4: every reason to expect, and indeed, I'd been told by
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Speaker 4: senior officials in the administration California is even worse, yeah,
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Speaker 4: than Minneapolis has been. And I want you also give
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Speaker 4: a listen to Agriculture Secretary Brook Rawlins and what she
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Speaker 4: revealed about fraud and abuse concerning SNAP. Concerning food stamps.
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Speaker 4: Give a listen to to Secretary Rollins.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this one's amazing.
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Speaker 1: By the way, for context, this is about luxury cars
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Speaker 1: and how many people on food stamps are driving like
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Speaker 1: luxury cars.
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Speaker 2: It's incredible sharing.
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Speaker 3: Previously, no data was shared. We had no idea where
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Speaker 3: the taxpayer dollars were spent, just one red state. The
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Speaker 3: recent dump of data, we found SNAP recipients had more
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Speaker 3: than two thousand Tesla owners, two hundred Alpha Romeo owners,
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Speaker 3: more than one hundred and forty four that were receiving
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Speaker 3: food stamps were driving Porsches. Again, this is the data
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Speaker 3: dumps we're getting because that we before we had no
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Speaker 3: accountability on any of these programs. We now are requiring accountability.
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Speaker 3: The Blue states are suing us. They don't want to.
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Speaker 4: Share the data.
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Speaker 3: And can you imagine this was a red state where
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Speaker 3: there is actually some taxpayer accountability. Imagine what's happening in
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Speaker 3: the Blue states. If that's happening in the Red.
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Speaker 2: States, well, I love that.
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Speaker 1: It's like a bunch of Tesla owners, Alfa Romeo, also Porsches, Mercedes,
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Speaker 1: BMW's and you're on food stamps like these were.
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Speaker 2: High end luxury.
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Speaker 4: Actually, Ben it's even worse. So let me give some
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Speaker 4: additional breakdown. So there are three hundred and six land Rovers.
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Speaker 2: They're worth cheap, by the way.
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Speaker 4: There were fifty nine Maseratis.
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Speaker 2: Yeah that's their word stamp car. You know that.
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Speaker 4: There were eleven Lamborghinis, There were three Ferraris, there were
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Speaker 4: three Bentley's. These are people getting food stamps driving a
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Speaker 4: quarter million dollar or more like a Lamborghini could be
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Speaker 4: a million dollar car depending on which one they had. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: that is an absolute abuse. And if that happened in
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Speaker 4: just one red state that handed over ats data. How
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Speaker 4: much do you think it's happening in Minnesota? How much
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Speaker 4: do you think it's happening in New York? How much
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Speaker 4: do you think it is happening in Illinois? How much
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Speaker 4: you think it's happening in California. The numbers are gonna
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Speaker 4: be done.
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Speaker 1: Every time they went after and got somebody there for
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Speaker 1: fraud recently, what were they doing? You saw them putting
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Speaker 1: in a six figure car that was being seas and
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Speaker 1: in some of the cases there was like multiple six
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Speaker 1: figure cars that were being c center and put on flatbeds. Like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: they foundly raided the house of this fraudster and look
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Speaker 1: at what they had. Like if you're on food stamps
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Speaker 1: and you're driving a Lambeau or a Ferrari or a Maserati,
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Speaker 1: like you were defrauding the US government full stop.
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Speaker 2: Well, keep following this story.
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