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Comey Indictment Is Just Beginning plus YouTube Reverses Course · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 3: Good Monday morning, nice have you with us on the
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  Speaker 3: forty seven Morning Update, and we've got two big stories
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  Speaker 3: for you. First up, Democrats going after Donald Trump now
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  Speaker 3: saying that this is vengeance prosecutions going after James Comy. Well,
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  Speaker 3: we have new information showing that is absolutely not true,
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  Speaker 3: and I'll explain that to you coming up in just
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  Speaker 2: Right now story number one.
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  Speaker 3: As you know, James Comy has been indicted. The question
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  Speaker 3: is what happens next? Well, how did we get to
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  Speaker 3: where we are now is also a question that many
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  Speaker 3: are asking, And I want to take you back to
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  Speaker 3: two thousand and eighteen. Catherine Heritage, who has done extensive
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  Speaker 3: reporting on James Comy had this to say back then,
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  Speaker 3: listen carefully to the word she chooses.
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  Speaker 4: Amazing.
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  Speaker 5: Exchange to me is when you had Director Comy confirmed
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  Speaker 5: that he shared those memos documenting conversations with the president
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  Speaker 5: with three other people, so the Columbia professor, that's what
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  Speaker 5: he testified to. Also, he describes his personal attorineing Patrick Fitzgerald,
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  Speaker 5: and then this other attorney. What's key here is that
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  Speaker 5: he told you, Brett, that those memos were returned to
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  Speaker 5: the FBI after they've found classified information. He can call
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  Speaker 5: it whatever he wants. That is a classified spill of information.
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  Speaker 5: Doesn't matter whether they have clearances, they didn't have the
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  Speaker 5: ability to secure that information.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, you listen to that, and you go back at
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  Speaker 3: the timeline, and now you understand a lot of where
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  Speaker 3: we're going with this case. You also have this post
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  Speaker 3: from Catherine Rriage based on my two decades covering the
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  Speaker 3: FBI and the Justice Department. A thin indictment suggests a
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  Speaker 3: holding charge with the potential of a more complex superseding
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  Speaker 3: indictment that adds more charges. As you know, the media
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  Speaker 3: has been claiming that this is a nothing burger that
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  Speaker 3: there's nothing there, that this is a weak indictment, which
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  Speaker 3: is exactly why I am bringing this up for you now.
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  Speaker 3: Heritage went on to say this is not only possible,
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  Speaker 3: but plausible in Comy's case, based on the recently declassified
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  Speaker 3: FBI leak investigation caspitel code name Arctic Hayes. The Arctic
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  Speaker 3: Hayes records reveal several FBI senior leaders and Columbia law
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  Speaker 3: professor Daniel Richmond said they coordinated media leaks at Comy's direction.
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  Speaker 3: The former FBI Chief of Staff James Baker, former FBI
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  Speaker 3: General Counsel Andrew McCain, the former deputy director Daniel Richmond,
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  Speaker 3: and a Columbia law professor August fourteenth. I was among
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  Speaker 3: the first to report on Arctic Hayes, she says, and
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  Speaker 3: she's absolutely right. Now. Democrats have no desire for you
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  Speaker 3: to know any of the background that I just gave you.
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  Speaker 3: Why because they are afraid that this is going to
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  Speaker 3: become an even bigger issue, and that's why they're trying
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  Speaker 3: to act as if this is something that is quickly
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  Speaker 3: going to disappear, that there is actually nothing there, that
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  Speaker 3: there is nothing that you should be worried about and
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  Speaker 3: that this is somehow just vengeful law enforcement. In fact,
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  Speaker 3: that's the Democratic talking points. Senator Amy Klobachar putting it
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  Speaker 3: this way on face the nation, as Democrats are trying
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  Speaker 3: to spend their way out of this disaster.
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  Speaker 6: You sit on the Judiciary Committee, so I want to
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  Speaker 6: ask you about what's happening right now. Earlier this month,
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  Speaker 6: the US Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, Eric Sebert,
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  Speaker 6: resigned after failing to bring a case against New York
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  Speaker 6: Attorney General Letitia James. We just spoke about her with
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  Speaker 6: Robert Costa. Monday, Lindsay Halligan was sworn in as the
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  Speaker 6: interim US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. She
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  Speaker 6: has never prosecuted a case before. Three days into this
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  Speaker 6: new job, she moved forward with the indictment of former
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  Speaker 6: FBI Director James Comy on two counts. Have you spoken
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  Speaker 6: to your fellow Republicans on the Judiciary Committee. Do they
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  Speaker 6: have concerns about what's happening in Virginia?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I plan I'm doing that this week. And what
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  Speaker 7: I see this as a former prosecutor myself, this is
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  Speaker 7: weaponizing the Justice Department basically taking a career prosecutor who
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  Speaker 7: was recommended by the Republican governor of the state of Virginia,
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  Speaker 7: clearly has Republican roots, who made a decision based on
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  Speaker 7: the evidence over a period of months, made a decision.
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  Speaker 7: Then he's pushed out, forced out so that the president
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  Speaker 7: can install his own aid into the job. When I
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  Speaker 7: questioned Attorney General Bondi during her confirmation hearing, she assured
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  Speaker 7: me that politics would not play a role, that they
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  Speaker 7: would make independent decisions. That is not what this is.
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  Speaker 7: This is a vengeance prosecution. It is not about the law.
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  Speaker 3: That is a spend that you're going to be receiving
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  Speaker 3: for weeks and probably months. That this is a vengeful prosecution. Now,
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  Speaker 3: to be clear, that is what Democrats did year after
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  Speaker 3: year after year after year. They went after their political opponents,
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  Speaker 3: their political enemies. They lied, They decided to try to
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  Speaker 3: put people in jail, and to even go after the
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  Speaker 3: president of the United States of America to the point
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  Speaker 3: where he had how many different mug shots and how
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  Speaker 3: many different indictments against him over and over again. But
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  Speaker 3: now we're finding out about all the corruption with proof
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  Speaker 3: of just how bad it's actually gotten. We also know
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  Speaker 3: the Democrats are trying to move now to shut down
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  Speaker 3: the government, so maybe you won't be paying attention to
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  Speaker 3: James Comy. And as they're trying to shut down the government,
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  Speaker 3: they're saying, somehow this is Donald Trump's fault. Hakeem Jeffries
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  Speaker 3: saying this about a possible government shut down and saying
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  Speaker 3: it's all Donald Trump's fault.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, you haven't had any formal meetings with President Trump.
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  Speaker 4: You're around him during inauguration of obviously met him. What
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  Speaker 4: are your ex expectations from this meeting and can you compromise?
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  Speaker 8: Well, Donald Trump has taken a go at a loan
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  Speaker 8: approach from the very beginning of this Congress, and unfortunately,
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  Speaker 8: my colleagues on the Republican side of the aisle have
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  Speaker 8: behaved not as a separate and co equal branch of
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  Speaker 8: government and a check in balance on an out of
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  Speaker 8: control executive branch, but as a consistent rubber stant for
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  Speaker 8: Donald Trump's extreme agenda. Our view going into the meeting
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  Speaker 8: is that we want to find bipartisan common ground, to
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  Speaker 8: find a spending agreement that avoids a government shutdown and
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  Speaker 8: actually meets the needs of the American people in terms
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  Speaker 8: of their health, their safety, and their economic will be if.
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  Speaker 3: I had this is the Democratic Party's new agenda. It's
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  Speaker 3: an extreme agenda. I agree with Hakeem Jeffries. The only
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  Speaker 3: difference is he's saying that Donald Trump's extreme, when what
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  Speaker 3: Democrats are now trying to do is say, Okay, maybe
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  Speaker 3: we'll have a government shutdown so you won't pay attention
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  Speaker 3: to everything else that's actually going on. You even hear
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  Speaker 3: the hosts there saying that this is well kind of
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  Speaker 3: shocking that they're designed the going to move this way.
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  Speaker 3: And what does Jeffery say. He doubled down on it
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  Speaker 3: and says, well, they're just a rubber stamp for the Republicans.
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  Speaker 3: So if you want to know how big of a
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  Speaker 3: deal the James Comby indictment is, I believe it's such
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  Speaker 3: a big deal. The Democrats are now doing anything they
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  Speaker 3: can to try to change the subject. They are terrified
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  Speaker 3: that this is going to turn into a big black
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  Speaker 3: eye for them. They are terrified that there's a chance
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  Speaker 3: there could be more to this indictment than this the
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  Speaker 3: simplistic aspect that they're trying to describe it. They're also
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  Speaker 3: terrified that if he does go to prison, that there
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  Speaker 3: could be others that could come down around James Comy,
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  Speaker 3: that would be other democratic operatives. So just know, as
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  Speaker 3: this story continues to grow, and as the former FBI
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  Speaker 3: director goes to a trial, as he describes it, that
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  Speaker 3: there is a very good chance the Democrat will do
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  Speaker 3: anything they can to try to bait and switch you
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  Speaker 3: into caring about something else. So pay attention to this
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  Speaker 3: as it continues to happen. We're certainly going to keep
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  Speaker 3: you updated on it here because it is maybe one
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  Speaker 3: of the most important stories of this entire administration and
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  Speaker 3: the corruption of the last administration. Now story number two,
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  Speaker 3: there is a story the media is not talking about,
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  Speaker 3: and that is exactly why we're going to expose it
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  Speaker 3: right now. And the fact is this, Google is now
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  Speaker 3: confirming that the Biden administration pressured it to censor Donald
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  Speaker 3: Trump and other conservatives on a multitude of issues. Google
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  Speaker 3: now confessing that the Biden administration pressed their words not mine,
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  Speaker 3: the tech giant as well as you two, to censor
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  Speaker 3: content the government felt was COVID nineteen miss information that,
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  Speaker 3: according to a letter released by Jim Jordan, the parent
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  Speaker 3: company of Google and YouTube, known as Alphabet, is now
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  Speaker 3: urging those counterculture voices to quote rejoin if they were
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  Speaker 3: kicked off the platform for violating the now abandoned rules
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  Speaker 3: on what content creators could say about COVID nineteen and
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  Speaker 3: election integrity. Alphabet attorney Daniel Donovan shared the shocking admission
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  Speaker 3: Tuesday while speaking to the House Judiciary Committee. The Biden administration,
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  Speaker 3: Donovan wrote created a political atmosphere that sought to influence
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  Speaker 3: the actions of platforms based on their concerns regarding their
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  Speaker 3: decision to describe things as quote misinformation. They went on
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  Speaker 3: to also admit this it is unacceptable and wrong when
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  Speaker 3: any government, including the Biden administration, attempts to dictate how
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  Speaker 3: the company moderates content, and the company has consistently fought
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  Speaker 3: against those efforts on First Amendment grounds. Senior Biden officials,
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  Speaker 3: including the White House officials, conducted, repeated, they said, and
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  Speaker 3: sustained outreach to Alphabet, the company that owns Google and YouTube.
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  Speaker 3: They consistently reached out and pressed the company regarding certain
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  Speaker 3: user generated content related to COVID nineteen pandemic that did
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  Speaker 3: not violate its policies, while the company continued to develop
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  Speaker 3: and enforce its policies, independently. The Biden administration officials continued
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  Speaker 3: to press the company to remove non violated user generated content. Now,
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  Speaker 3: let's be clear, these companies could have stood up to
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  Speaker 3: the Biden administration. They chose not to, and now they're
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  Speaker 3: acting like they had no choice but to fall to
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  Speaker 3: the government pressure of the Biden regime. Now, several members
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  Speaker 3: of the current Trump administration had videos pulled on topics
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  Speaker 3: that covered COVID nineteen and the twenty twenty election, including
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  Speaker 3: current FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino and also White House
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  Speaker 3: counter Terrorism Chief Sebastian Gorka. YouTube takes seriously. The company
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  Speaker 3: now claims the importance of protecting free expression and access
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  Speaker 3: to a range of viewpoints. YouTube values conservative voices on
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  Speaker 3: its platform and recognizes that these creators have extensive reach
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  Speaker 3: and play an important role in civic discourse. They're now claiming. Now,
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  Speaker 3: let's also be clear. If you want to know just
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  Speaker 3: how much the media is involved in silencing and censoring people,
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  Speaker 3: let me just remind you of what the late night
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  Speaker 3: hosts we're saying and celebrating Silicon Valley censoring Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 3: This is a montage of the Big Six that were
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  Speaker 3: on Late Night television, the same six that are crying
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  Speaker 3: when Jimmy Kimmel got a a vacation suspension and are
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  Speaker 3: now saying that they're in favor of free speech no
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  Speaker 3: matter what. Well, we've got the tape and that's a lie.
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  Speaker 3: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 9: It's been suspended from Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and even Snapchat.
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  Speaker 9: But for this president, sill plenty of apps you do
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  Speaker 9: have access to. You still have Spotify to drown out
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  Speaker 9: the sound of millions of people cheering as you leave. Google,
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  Speaker 9: Apple and Amazon removed the Parlor app from their platforms.
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  Speaker 9: Parlor is where all the right wingers gather to post
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  Speaker 9: qann sense and misspel the word Parlor. Trumpers are complaining
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  Speaker 9: bitterly that they're being silenced. They, in fact, they won't
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  Speaker 9: shut up about being silenced.
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  Speaker 6: I love having Donald Trump off Twitter, not to mention
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  Speaker 6: all the other toxic racists and conspiracy theorists that have
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  Speaker 6: been booted off.
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  Speaker 10: Oo damn a lifetime Twitter ban has got a sting.
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  Speaker 10: They took away his precious Twitter isn't the only social
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  Speaker 10: media site that wants nothing to do with our president.
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  Speaker 10: He's also been banned or restricted from a bevy of
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  Speaker 10: other platforms. Including Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Reddit, and even Twitch.
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  Speaker 10: What are you waiting for? Porn Hub? It's not a coincidence,
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  Speaker 10: it's a consequence. I know it's hard for you to
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  Speaker 10: recognize it because you've never faced one before.
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  Speaker 11: Lifetime ban Trump's basically the Pete Rose of social media.
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  Speaker 11: Right now, Trump's phone is stuffed into a pile of
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  Speaker 11: rice after being drenched with tears. In addition to Twitter,
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  Speaker 11: Trump has been banned or restricted from Apple, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Google, Amazon, Pinterest, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, Twitch, Stripe, Discord,
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  Speaker 11: and Shopify. Trump started this year thinking he should be
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  Speaker 11: on Mount Rushmore. Now he can't even get on Instagram.
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  Speaker 12: However, our lives changed since Trump has been banned from Twitter. Well,
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  Speaker 12: I thought we'd take a quick look outside and see
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  Speaker 12: has the world changed since our president has been banned
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  Speaker 12: from Twitter. Let's just look outside and see what's going on.
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  Speaker 4: I like it.
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  Speaker 13: Elon Musk is in the middle of purchasing Twitter Well today,
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  Speaker 13: Musk said that one of the first things he would
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  Speaker 13: do after the acquisition goes through is lift the permanent
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  Speaker 13: Twitter ban on Donald Trump. So you are banning Trump?
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  Speaker 7: Was like one of the.
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  Speaker 13: Few clicked almost good things Twitter has done in like
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  Speaker 13: a decade is that Donald Trump is a scam account.
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  Speaker 13: It's all a scam.
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  Speaker 3: All It's a scam that is late night demanding and
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  Speaker 3: celebrating the silencing of people they disagreed with, the same
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  Speaker 3: thing they were crying about this past week when someone
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  Speaker 3: actually lied on TV about the shooter that took out
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  Speaker 3: Charlie Kirk. So always remember, whatever ever it is they're
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  Speaker 3: saying is happening to them, is probably exactly what they've
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  Speaker 3: been advocating for for years.
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