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BIDEN ALLOWS Chinese-Owned Farmland Next to 19 US Military Bases in ‘Alarming’ Threat to National Security! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: I have a warning and an important story, and I
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  Speaker 1: need you guys to do what you do well, which
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  Speaker 1: is to share this information when I give it to
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  Speaker 1: you everywhere you can on social media, you can share
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  Speaker 1: the podcast, you can take notes. But this is a
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  Speaker 1: story that's not being reported on, and it is that
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  Speaker 1: China is buying up massive amounts of farmland directly connected
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  Speaker 1: right in and around and near major US military bases
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  Speaker 1: and installations. China, we now know, has been buying up
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  Speaker 1: strategically placed farmland next to these military installations across the US,
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  Speaker 1: and it's raising major fears over national security concerns.
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  Speaker 2: The New York Post has.
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  Speaker 1: Now identified nineteen bases across the US from Florida to
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  Speaker 1: Hawaii which are in extremely close proximity to land bought
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  Speaker 1: up by Chinese entities. The map is staff when you
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  Speaker 1: look at where this land is. The base is identified
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  Speaker 1: includes some of the most strategically important bases in our country.
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  Speaker 1: Fort Liberty, known as Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, North Carolina,
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  Speaker 1: now has Chinese entities buying upland around it. Another one
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  Speaker 1: you may know in Colleen, Texas Fort Hood, also China
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  Speaker 1: has bought up land around it. The Marine Corps base
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  Speaker 1: Camp Pendleton. You know that base, well the name, Why
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  Speaker 1: do you know it? Because it's important in San Diego.
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  Speaker 1: We have Chinese and TISA bought land around that base
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  Speaker 1: as well. We also have an air base in Tampa, Florida,
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  Speaker 1: McDill Air Force Base, where now Chinese entities have bought
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  Speaker 1: up land around that air base. And what we know
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  Speaker 1: is they're buying up land under the disguise of farming,
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  Speaker 1: which allows them to then set up reconnaissance sits, installing
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  Speaker 1: tracking technology, use radar in infrared scanning to view bases,
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  Speaker 1: or attempt to fly drones over them as a way
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  Speaker 1: to well, they would claim survey their land, but actually
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  Speaker 1: to survey military sites. Now you may say, all right, man,
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  Speaker 1: you're paranoid, right, That's what the left would say.
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  Speaker 2: That's what the Biden administration would say.
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  Speaker 1: What's the big problem here, Well, this land could also
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  Speaker 1: be exploited by spies working for the Communist nation, and
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  Speaker 1: they could actually look like they are just farm hands, right,
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  Speaker 1: people working on the land, when in fact they are
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  Speaker 1: very good at collecting data surveillance.
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  Speaker 2: The list goes on and on.
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  Speaker 1: A report in the Wall Street Journal from September of
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  Speaker 1: last year, also sounding the alarm. You probably did not
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  Speaker 1: hear about it. In twenty twenty three, they found that
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  Speaker 1: Chinese intruders were attempting to breach military facilities. These are
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  Speaker 1: specifically Chinese individuals over one hundred times in recent years,
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  Speaker 1: including sneaking into a missile range in New Mexico and
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  Speaker 1: scuba divers spotted near a government rocket launch site also
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  Speaker 1: in Florida.
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  Speaker 2: That's not one.
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  Speaker 1: That is two different times that the Chinese have been
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  Speaker 1: caught being involved in this type of espionage, this type
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  Speaker 1: of spine. Even the FBI now has labeled this quote
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  Speaker 1: a grave threat, and the director, Christopher Ray saying in
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  Speaker 1: April that hackers have made their way into US critical
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  Speaker 1: infrastructure and are waiting for the right moment to deal
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  Speaker 1: a devastating blow and physically wreck recavoc on United States
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  Speaker 1: of America's infrastructure.
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  Speaker 1: needed to fight the Chinese, saying that we are opening
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  Speaker 1: up countless investigations into Chinese individuals and into Chinese operations
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  Speaker 1: literally on a daily basis. What is the Biden administration doing,
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  Speaker 1: Acting like these warnings don't even exist, acting like they're
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  Speaker 1: not even there, acting like it's something that they don't
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  Speaker 1: even know about. The Department of Homeland Security known as
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  Speaker 1: the DHS, also.
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  Speaker 2: Getting in on the action.
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  Speaker 1: Warning of the threat of Chinese spy slipping over the
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  Speaker 1: US southern border disguise as among the more than thirty
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  Speaker 1: thousand who've already been admitted since October of last year
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  Speaker 1: that are Chinese nationals. According to the Department of Homeland
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  Speaker 1: Securities Homeland A Threat Assessment twenty twenty four, those spies
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  Speaker 1: will likely employ economic espionage and seek to elicit acchoir
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  Speaker 1: or our intellectual technologies, our technologies, and our intellectual property.
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  Speaker 2: So they're already.
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  Speaker 1: Telling you again this is coming from the Howned Security
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  Speaker 1: that we are allowing a countless number of illegal immigrants
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  Speaker 1: who are actually spies into the United States of America,
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  Speaker 1: who are then wreaking havoc inside the United States of America,
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  Speaker 1: and again the Biden.
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  Speaker 2: Administration is doing nothing to stop this.
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  Speaker 1: According to the latest analysis from the Farm Service Agency
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  Speaker 1: of the USDA, right you've heard of the USDA comes
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  Speaker 1: when it comes.
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  Speaker 2: To meat and different things like that poultry.
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  Speaker 1: They are now saying this Chinese investors now own three
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  Speaker 1: hundred and forty nine thousand, four hundred and forty two
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  Speaker 1: acres of US farmland as of December.
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  Speaker 2: Of twenty twenty two. Those are the latest numbers that
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  Speaker 2: they're willing to give us. Now, that's not all.
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  Speaker 1: Navy Admiral Darryl Claudel appeared on Fox News and he
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  Speaker 1: actually warned of the uptick in foreign nationals trying to
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  Speaker 1: infiltrate also, as he described it, military basis.
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  Speaker 2: Now, why would they be trying to do this.
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  Speaker 1: They could be doing it as a soft run, right,
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  Speaker 1: as a to try to you know, as a dry
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  Speaker 1: run to try to figure out a way to get
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  Speaker 1: into the United States of America. This again is a
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  Speaker 1: major problem. Listen to the admiral of the US Fleet
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  Speaker 1: Forces Command warning all of us about what China is doing.
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  Speaker 3: You know, this thing of our military base is getting
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  Speaker 3: penetrated by foreign nationals is happening more and more. You know,
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  Speaker 3: this is something we see probably two or three times
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  Speaker 3: a way week where we're stopping these folks at the
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  Speaker 3: gate with a week a week at least, And this
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  Speaker 3: is just Navy alone, where we're seeing folks try to
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  Speaker 3: come in. And usually the cover story is and I'm
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  Speaker 3: a student, you know, I'm here, I'm an enthusiast. I
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  Speaker 3: want to see the ships. That type of thing. We
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  Speaker 3: have to turn them around and typically we get ncis
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  Speaker 3: involved with those and we get biometrics when possible. But yes,
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  Speaker 3: there's been enough ticket out. Do they have passports, they
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  Speaker 3: have a lot of times.
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  Speaker 2: They have passports.
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  Speaker 3: Do they have papers, Yes, but they're in no way,
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  Speaker 3: shape or form authorized to be on our base. And
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  Speaker 3: it's really hard for us to tell the underlying motive
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  Speaker 3: for these type of cases.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, that's that's stunning.
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  Speaker 1: It is.
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  Speaker 2: It's got to be a concern.
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  Speaker 3: This is Russian, Chinese, this comes from all all these
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  Speaker 3: different nations. We're seeing an uptick in it now.
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  Speaker 1: The most concerning thing about everything that I just played
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  Speaker 1: for you is the fact that we are now getting
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  Speaker 1: these warnings, okay from people in and around the Biden administration.
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  Speaker 1: If you look at what we now know about China
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  Speaker 1: and what's happening right now with China, it is so
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  Speaker 1: concerning because we are witnessing this happen in real time,
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  Speaker 1: and as we're witnessing this happen in real time, the
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  Speaker 1: Biden administration again.
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  Speaker 2: Not doing a damn thing. They're not doing anything. They're
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  Speaker 2: not doing anything.
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  Speaker 1: At all to stop this. They're just kind of like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it is what it is.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 1: You listen to these warnings, and I want to play
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  Speaker 1: for you the one I mentioned a moment ago from
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  Speaker 1: Director Ray. Listen to Ray's warning and NBC News playing
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  Speaker 1: this warning about the Chinese hackers that are aiming to
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  Speaker 1: wreak havoc on the US at their choosing.
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  Speaker 2: At the time of their choosing.
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  Speaker 5: Tonight, the FBI director sounding the alarm about Chinese efforts
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  Speaker 5: to attack American power grid, rids, transportation systems, and communications networks.
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  Speaker 6: China's hackers are positioning on American infrastructure in preparation to
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  Speaker 6: wreak havoc and cause real world harm to American citizens
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  Speaker 6: and communities.
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  Speaker 5: And Christopher Ray announcing a major takedown of a Chinese
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  Speaker 5: hacking operation on American soil dubbed vult Typhoon.
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  Speaker 6: Working with our partners, the FBI ran a court authorized
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  Speaker 6: on network operation to shut down vault Typhoon and the
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  Speaker 6: access it enabled. Steps China was taking, in other words,
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  Speaker 6: to find and prepare to destroy or degrade the civilian
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  Speaker 6: critical infrastructure that keeps US safe and prosperous.
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  Speaker 5: Ray and other officials say China poses the world's greatest
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  Speaker 5: cyber threat, and they warned that Americans remain vulnerable. US
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  Speaker 5: Cybersecurity Chief Jen Easterly describing the devastating impact of a
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  Speaker 5: potential massive Chinese cyber attack.
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  Speaker 7: Communications going down so people can't use their cell phone,
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  Speaker 7: people start getting sick from polluted water, Trains get derailed,
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  Speaker 7: air traffic control system port control systems are malfunctioning. This
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  Speaker 7: is truly and everything everywhere all it wants, scenario Easterly.
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  Speaker 5: Said, China believes that sort of cyber attack would crush
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  Speaker 5: any American will to defend Taiwan from a Chinese invasion.
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  Speaker 5: In a statement to NBC News, a Chinese government spokesman
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  Speaker 5: denied China hacks into foreign networks, calling it irresponsible criticism.
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  Speaker 1: That's the warning, and it makes it on the nightly
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  Speaker 1: news on NBC. And what is the Biden administration doing?
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  Speaker 1: Nothing Like they're not doing anything. So if this is
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  Speaker 1: what they're saying publicly, I want you to imagine what
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  Speaker 1: are saying privately. If he's saying that they're the number
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  Speaker 1: one threats and could shut down our way of life
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  Speaker 1: the way that they're describing it, then and then you
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  Speaker 1: you think about the farmland that China is buying up
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  Speaker 1: in this country. It is unbelievable just how much farmland
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  Speaker 1: apparently is being bought up.
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  Speaker 2: We've had these war warnings about this.
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  Speaker 1: Congressman Zach Nunn was talking about this recently in Congress.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to hear what he said.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, when he was talking about this,
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  Speaker 1: there was like five people in the room, so no
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  Speaker 1: one's paying attention to the warning.
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  Speaker 8: Listen, it's real and it's often overlooked in the ag community.
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  Speaker 8: I appreciate the chairman putting this together and having a
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  Speaker 8: discussion on the direct impact. I just got off the
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  Speaker 8: China Commission where we talked about harvesting organs that China's
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  Speaker 8: trying to sell around the world, harvesting our own agriculture
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  Speaker 8: and the threat that that poses is direct. It's real,
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  Speaker 8: and it's now. Thank you first and foremost for what
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  Speaker 8: you do with the Soybean Association. You are part of
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  Speaker 8: a team of tireless workers who are in the field,
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  Speaker 8: producing and providing for not just America, but the entire country.
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  Speaker 2: Iowa, Illinois, others.
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  Speaker 8: We all are part of this team together, and so
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  Speaker 8: I'm proud of what we've been able to export with
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  Speaker 8: the US agriculture being Soybean's number one in the field
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  Speaker 8: for our ag exports. The challenges sixty percent of that
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  Speaker 8: is going to China's day. Talk to us a little
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  Speaker 8: bit about what we should be doing here in Congress
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  Speaker 8: to help diversify that and ensure that we're not dependent
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  Speaker 8: on a sole customer that could use this.
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  Speaker 2: In a trade war against us. Now, I'm just going
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  Speaker 2: to pause there.
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  Speaker 1: He's saying that China is grabbing all of this right like,
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  Speaker 1: China is getting all of this soybean, and they could
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  Speaker 1: in a trade war, they could come after us in
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  Speaker 1: a major way. I'll go to and I'm gonna hit
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  Speaker 1: pause on that, and i want to go to another
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  Speaker 1: local story where there's another warning that that is Arkansas
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  Speaker 1: is now forcing Chinese companies to sell their farm land
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  Speaker 1: that they bought in this country, saying not in Arkansas
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  Speaker 1: because this is a threat to our security.
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  Speaker 9: Sol thanks new At six. Concerns over China buying up
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  Speaker 9: Arkansas farmland and spying on agriculture technology has led the
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  Speaker 9: state to order a company to divest ownership of that land.
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  Speaker 9: At a news conference this morning, Governor Sarah Huckabee Senders
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  Speaker 9: and Attorney General Tim Griffin announcing plans to enforce a
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  Speaker 9: new law that bans foreign parties from owning agriculture land
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  Speaker 9: in the state. Governor said a seed research facility in
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  Speaker 9: northeast Arkansas is owned by a Chinese state owned company.
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  Speaker 9: The new law allows the ag to order the company
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  Speaker 9: to give up one hundred and sixty acres and also
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  Speaker 9: slap the company with a two hundred and eighty thousand
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  Speaker 9: dollars fine.
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  Speaker 4: Seeds are technology, Chinese state owned corporations filter that technology
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  Speaker 4: back to their homeland, stealing American research and telling our
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  Speaker 4: enemies how to target American farms.
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  Speaker 9: Governor said this is the first time any state has
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  Speaker 9: used a law like this. Griffin said the company has
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  Speaker 9: two years to sell and that fine came from failure
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  Speaker 9: to disclose the ownership stake in a timely manner.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, one other thing, and she said that
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  Speaker 1: talking about the seeds here, you want to know why
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  Speaker 1: they would love to know about our seed technology. It's
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  Speaker 1: actually very simple because there's also things that you could
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  Speaker 1: do to affect the yields that are coming out of
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  Speaker 1: our farms where we all of a sudden could have
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  Speaker 1: bad crops, where there are certain bugs that could come
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  Speaker 1: after and they can change and alter to then eat
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  Speaker 1: up our crops, or there are certain things they could
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  Speaker 1: change an alter including weeds to go after the crops,
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  Speaker 1: and then we would be desperate for this food source
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  Speaker 1: somewhere else around the world, which would give China a
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  Speaker 1: huge advantage. This is what researchers are now warning about.
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  Speaker 1: And so they're like, you can't have China sitting next
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  Speaker 1: door to all of these different things that we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about right now, Like you cannot allow for China to
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  Speaker 1: be in this scenario. You just can't do it. And
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  Speaker 1: what is the president doing right now? You guessed it
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  Speaker 1: not a darn thing. Now, the question you have to
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  Speaker 1: ask yourself is, Okay, why why is it that the
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  Speaker 1: President of the United States of America is allowing for
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  Speaker 1: all of this to happen. Why is it that the
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  Speaker 1: President of the United States of America is getting warnings
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  Speaker 1: from the FBI, is getting warnings from the USDA, is
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  Speaker 1: getting warnings from the Department of Homeland Security, is getting
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  Speaker 1: warnings from the Border, is getting warnings from states and
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  Speaker 1: governors who are saying, hey, this is a problem, and
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  Speaker 1: he is not doing anything about it. Is Is it
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  Speaker 1: possibly because the president United States of America is compromised
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  Speaker 1: by China because they've had more money come in from
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  Speaker 1: China the Biden crime family than any other country in
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  Speaker 1: the world. Is it because of his son and his
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  Speaker 1: britt and his brother who have brought in literally tens
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  Speaker 1: of millions of dollars specifically from China.
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  Speaker 2: It's a fair question. It is a question that we
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  Speaker 2: should all be asking.
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  Speaker 1: It is a question that no one should be shying
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  Speaker 1: away from. But here we are with a president of
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  Speaker 1: the United States of America that doesn't know how to
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  Speaker 1: answer these questions. Actually he does, he just refuses to
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  Speaker 1: answer them. And why does he refuse to answer them.
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  Speaker 1: He refuses to answer it because he already knows it's happening,
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  Speaker 1: and he's allowing it to happen. It's no different than
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  Speaker 1: the number of illegal immigrants coming across the southern border,
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  Speaker 1: who many of them happen to be on the terrorist
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  Speaker 1: watch list, right, It's no different than the chin These
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  Speaker 1: nationals that are coming across at alarming rates, at alarming rates,
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  Speaker 1: and he knows it. And many of them are military
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  Speaker 1: aged men, many of them are spies, many of them are.
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  Speaker 2: People that are stilling our intellectual property.
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  Speaker 1: He knows that they're buying up all of this farmland
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  Speaker 1: in and around our military installations, so they can spy
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  Speaker 1: on us, see our activities, See how we train, see
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  Speaker 1: how we're flying, see how we may do attacks, see
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  Speaker 1: how we practice our air drops.
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  Speaker 2: So list goes on and on.
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  Speaker 1: They're not buying up this farmland a farm and the
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  Speaker 1: president knows it. Donald Trump, by the way, this week
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  Speaker 1: has got a very big week ahead. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if he has chosen who is vice presidential candidate is yet.
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  Speaker 1: What I do know is that he has said very
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  Speaker 1: clearly that that person will be at the debate on Thursday. Now,
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  Speaker 1: before you get excited thinking one person's going to walk
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  Speaker 1: in and be the person, you could also have this.
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  Speaker 1: You could have all of the people on the short
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  Speaker 1: list on the front row with the with the president's
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: family right, that could be and he could say it's
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: going to be one of them down there, and that
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: wouldn't surprise me at all.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: But the short.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: List, and I'm not talking about who you know we
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: would like because that doesn't really matter. What matters is
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: the short list and did you make the short list?
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: And if you made the short list, what does it
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: look like?
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: What is that? What you know who's on it?
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Let me give you that list so you know what
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: we've been told from the Trump campaign the shortlist is.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: It is North Dakota Governor Doug Bergham, It's Ben Carson,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: former US Secretary of Housing urban Development under Trump.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: They know each other.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Obviously very well represented Byron Donald's Republican from Florida, Senator
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Marco Rubio, Republican Florida, Senator Tim Scott, Republican, South Carolina
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Representative at least Tephonic Republican New York, and Senator jd Vance,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Republican from Ohio. Now, there's a lot of other names
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: out there that people love. I understand that, Like there's
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: a lot of people that love of certain you know,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: different names, certain people they're not on the list, So
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna waste my time talking about them.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Okay, I want to make that clear. This is Trump's list.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: There have been a lot of you that have asked
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: me the same question, who do I think, who do
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: I think should get it?
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: And why.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: There is a couple things that I will bring up
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: that I would look at if I was Trump. There
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: have been massive gains recently, specifically in the Democratic are
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: staying in the polls, where many African Americans that used
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: to go for the Democratic Party. Many of them actually
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: voted for Joe Biden are now breaking and going to
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump. We have about twenty percent plus now of
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: the African American community that are voters, right registered voters
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: who are now saying they're leaning towards Donald Trump. That
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: is a massive number, a number that many could have
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: never imagined in the Republican Party. Donald Trump would be
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: dumb not to look at that number and say, Okay,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: is there a candidate here that can help me solidify
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: that twenty percent? Because if I get that twenty percent,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: the chance of me becoming president winning reelection are actually
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: extremely high.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: You'd have to look at that.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: So who on that list could really appeal to the
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: African American community? Ben Carson could appeal Byron Donald's could
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: appear appeal to them, and Centerton Scott they're all African Americans.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Do I like the fact that you, you know, you
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: play the game the way the games play with voters
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: where you look and go, okay, can an African American
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: you know, connect better than these others? Like, that's just
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: the reality, whether you like it or not, that's the reality.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: I don't make the rules. I don't make up what
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: voters care about. But there are many Americans that are
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: African American that definitely like to vote for someone that
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: looks like them.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: We learned that with Barack Obama.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: I think you would be crazy, based on the polling
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: data to not look at those three individuals.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Now, what am I looking for?
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: If I am the president of the United States of America?
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: What am I What am I looking for in a
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: vice president of Cannon?
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Number one thing I'm.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Looking for is somebody that could continue the carrying the
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: baton down the road for me. That's my I want
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: to be very very queer. That's my number one thing. Okay,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: like like number one, That's what matters to me.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: I want to know that whoever I.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Choose is going to be somebody that many Americans might
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: want to vote for four years from now. I'm not
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: running for six years. I mean for for eight years
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: as president. I'm running for four years, So you just
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: have to be intellectually honest if you're the President of
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: United States of America about that as well.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: I'm running for a four year term.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: That means whoever I pick needs to be able to
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: carry the baton and run with it, not walk with it.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Needs to be able to run with it, and that
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: is an important aspect of this conversation the president should
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: be having with his staff of advisors. I also think
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: the president has to look at his age and say,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: is there somebody that could take over tomorrow and continue
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: pushing with the agenda that I have pushed so hard for.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: If something happens to me just.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Based on age, you would be insane not to look
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: at the person you're picking on the job.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Training is not going to be what you want here.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: I want to also know that I have a candidate
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: that is I'm dealing with all these legal issues and
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: the attacks, and the Democratic Party can go out there
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: and continue to campaign for for me if I'm stuck
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: in court for longer than I thought I was going
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: to be stuck in court, and have somebody that can
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: defend me and defend what and not just defend, but
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: articulate what we believe in. I want somebody that people
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: will get excited to see. I want somebody that is
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: going to fire up individuals all over the country and
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: they go, hey, even though Trump's not going to be there,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: I want.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: To go see that guy. Are that gal?
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Now I look at that list and there's certain people
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: that immediately come off that list. For me, Ben Carson's
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: one of those. I know Ben pretty well. I've shared
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: the stage with him at Sea Pac. I like him.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: I think he's a very smart guy. I do not
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: believe he fills the room and brings the energy that
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: the president would need. I also don't believe that Ben
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Carson four years from now would be the front run
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: of the Republican Party. So for that reason, he would
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: be at the bottom of my list. I look at
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: North Dakota Governor Doug Burnham. He brings a lot of
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: money the table, brings a lot of donors to the table,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: knows a lot of rich people. But I don't think
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: that's enough to say I wanted to be my vice president.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: I also don't believe that Bergham is a.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Guy that the American people four years from now in
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: the Republican Party that voted for Trump are going to
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: be just clamoring all over to vote for So for
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: that reason, he would be at the bottom of the list.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: I look at a guy like Jady Vance, Republican Ohio.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Ihio is obviously a very important state, But does jed
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Vance get you or secure you Ohio. You could make
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: the argument that actually he doesn't. And the reason why
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: I say that is because I think without Donald Trump
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: he wouldn't have won and become the Senator from Ohio.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: I think Donald Trump won him that seat. I think
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: that's a pretty clear point and a clear message that
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: you've got to look at it in an honest manner.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Does a white guy from Ohio help you with African
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: American voters? You could make the argument that, in fact, no,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: it does not.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Help you. So is he bringing enough to the table? Right?
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: I don't see that bringing enough to the table.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: So that's the part number one of this that I
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: think is really important. I look then at guys like
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Tim Scott. I think Tim Scott would be a fabulous
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: choice for a couple of reasons. One, he certainly can
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: help you with the African American voters, and that I
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: think is really important. And Two, I think he would
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: do phenomenally well in a debate being kind, likable and
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: stern with Kamala Harris. I think you could also fight
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: back with Kamala Harris on issues of race, and I
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: think that is incredibly valuable. And finally, Tim Scott is
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: well liked in the Senate, and you're gonna have to
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: work with a Senate to get a Trump agenda done.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: And Tim Scott can go over there and be a
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: great messenger for you. Now you put all that together,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: and I say, okay, Tim Scott's high on my list.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: He's not the only one, by the way, to tie
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: on my list. Marco Rubio, a guy that speaks fluent Spanish,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: can really help you in this in the Hispanic community,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: that's very important. He's a guy that can understand border
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: safety and security. He's a guy that can talk border issues.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: He's a guy that can talk how Florida has done
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: things incredibly well and maybe we should.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Be looking at those things moving forward.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: And and these are these are things that you can
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: bring to the table. I also believe that there's a
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: lot of Americans that would wake up to go to
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: a rally for a Trump Rubio ticket if Donald Trump
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: is in fact not there. So I look at this
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: list and for me, Byron Donald's, for example, he's a
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: maga guy, right, like, and that's important to Donald Trump specifically,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: like being a maga guy is really important to him.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Byron Donald's a maga guy is Byron Donald's a guy
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: that can help you in the in the African American community,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: no doubt about it is Byron Donald's a guy that
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: you could see running for president four years from now.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I can't answer that question.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: I just haven't seen enough of him on the big
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: stage to know if I would say that or not.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: But when you're asking these questions, as I am out loud,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: I hope these are the exact questions that are being
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: asked of the of the President of the United States
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: of America while he's trying to make this pick. I
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: hope this is the conversation that they're having. I hope
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: that this conversation is one that is that has made really, really,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: really really clear. It's an incredibly important question list of
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: questions that need to be asked. I also think the
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: president has to know that whoever he picks needs to
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: be ready day one for the job.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: This does not need to be on the job training.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: And he needs to know that this person could excite
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: the base four years from now, and really that's too
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: long two and a half years from now when that
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: person would need to.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Step up and sam running for president.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: That is what the president needs to be looking at
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Those are the conversations he needs to be having in
• 30:19
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