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Are YOU Ready for a DOGE Rebate Check plus CIA Going after Cartels · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: I wanted somebody really smart to work with me in
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  Speaker 1: terms of the country, a very important aspect. You write
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  Speaker 1: an executive order, and you think it's done, you send
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  Speaker 1: it out, it doesn't get done, it doesn't get implemented.
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  Speaker 1: They don't implement it. Maybe they're from the last administration. Well, Gary,
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  Speaker 1: mine's a televance.
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  Speaker 2: It's more money's in the telebent.
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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  Speaker 4: Good Wednesday morning, Ben Ferguson, here, it's nice to have
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  Speaker 4: you with us on the forty seven Morning Update, and
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  Speaker 4: here are the big stories we're going to be talking
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  Speaker 4: about today. First up, Donald Trump and Elon Muss sit
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  Speaker 4: down for an interview with Hannity, and boy did they
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  Speaker 4: bring receipts, including some from the Taliban.
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  Speaker 2: I'll have that for you in just a second.
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  Speaker 4: Also, DOGE has discovered four point seven trillion dollars of
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  Speaker 4: payments that they cannot trace. Was this done on purpose
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  Speaker 4: to hide where your tax dollars are going? I'll explain
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  Speaker 4: that as well. And finally, the CIA is going after
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  Speaker 4: cartels in Mexico using reaper drones, the same ones we
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  Speaker 4: use in Iraq and Afghanistan to spy on the cartels.
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  Speaker 4: It's the forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 4: Story number one another day and Donald Trump and his
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  Speaker 4: team at DOGE are finding more of your tax dollars
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  Speaker 4: that are going to, for example, dead people. DOGE is
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  Speaker 4: investigating potential social security fraud. Millions are receiving checks right
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  Speaker 4: now that are aged over one hundred and thirty years old.
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  Speaker 4: This is the most shocking part of all is It's
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  Speaker 4: been happening for decades and no one stopped it. Elon
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  Speaker 4: Musk putting out a tweet saying, according to Social Security Database,
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  Speaker 4: these are the numbers of people in each age bucket
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  Speaker 4: with a death field set to false. Maybe twilight is
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  Speaker 4: real and there are a lot of vampires collecting social Security.
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  Speaker 4: You want to know how many people on his list
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  Speaker 4: are over the age of one hundred, Well one hundred
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  Speaker 4: to one hundred and nine. There are four point seven
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  Speaker 4: million apparently eligible for Social Security. It gets worse, oh
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  Speaker 4: one hundred and ten to one hundred and nineteen three
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  Speaker 4: point six million. Those that are eligible between the ages
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  Speaker 4: of one hundred and twenty to one hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 4: nine three point four million.
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  Speaker 2: Oh and don't worry, it gets worse.
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  Speaker 4: From one hundred and thirty to one hundred and thirty
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  Speaker 4: nine years old, there are three point nine million people
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  Speaker 4: that are apparently eligible for Social Security. That's not all.
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  Speaker 4: At one hundred and forty to one hundred and forty nine,
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  Speaker 4: there's three point five million. From one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 4: to one hundred and fifty nine, one point three million.
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  Speaker 4: And yes, there are even people on the Social Security
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  Speaker 4: rolls that are over the age of three hundred and sixty. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: there's a three hundred and sixty one year old person
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  Speaker 4: on the list. From the age of two hundred to
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  Speaker 4: two hundred and twenty nine, there are more than two
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  Speaker 4: thousand people apparently that are still alive at the age
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  Speaker 4: of two hundred and twenty to two hundred and twenty nine. Now,
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  Speaker 4: let's just let you digest that for a moment as
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  Speaker 4: I moved to the other big part of the day,
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  Speaker 4: which was Elon Musk and Donald Trump sitting down with
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  Speaker 4: Sean Hannity to talk about all the fraud they're finding.
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  Speaker 4: And here is part of what they said, including your
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  Speaker 4: tax dollars going directly to the Taliban.
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  Speaker 5: Average America makes sixty six thousand dollars a year. Yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 5: we have thirty seven trillion dollars in national debt. Now,
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  Speaker 5: all the money I'm about to mention and what we're
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  Speaker 5: going to scroll on our screen, and all of this
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  Speaker 5: is going to foreign countries. It is not being spent
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  Speaker 5: here in America for better schools, law and order. I
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  Speaker 5: think the average text being American should be mad as
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  Speaker 5: hell because their text money is being.
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  Speaker 2: I'm early spent.
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  Speaker 5: All right, let me go to the second question.
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  Speaker 2: First. I want to know.
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  Speaker 5: Because people like JOHNI Earnst AND's tried for a long
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  Speaker 5: time and she's actually got a lot of good data.
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  Speaker 2: Center US has been really helpful.
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  Speaker 5: Actually okay, but they they they actually high what the
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  Speaker 5: real purpose of the spending is. In other words, they
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  Speaker 5: and this is a question, how did you decipher it?
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  Speaker 5: Will say humanitarian blah blah blah in Serbia or Afghanistan.
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  Speaker 5: We even give them money to China for crying out loud,
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  Speaker 5: which I think is nuts.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the Taliban, what money to the Taliban?
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  Speaker 6: Like a lot?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, just listen to that statement from Elon Musk.
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  Speaker 4: We gave money to the Taliban, and then Elon Musk
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  Speaker 4: raises his eyebrows and says, like a lot. Can you
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  Speaker 4: imagine being in these meetings and this is what you
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  Speaker 4: are finding now. Donald Trump was asked about Elon Musk
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  Speaker 4: and hey, can Americans have confidence in what he's doing?
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  Speaker 4: Is the Democrats and the media are trying to turn
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  Speaker 4: him into the worst person in the world.
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  Speaker 2: Trump said this about Elon.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted somebody really smart to work with me in
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  Speaker 1: terms of the country, a very important aspect, because I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't talking about he's actually a very good businessman.
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  Speaker 1: And when he talks about the executive orders, and this
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  Speaker 1: is probably true for all precedents. When you write an
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  Speaker 1: executive order and you think it's done, you send it out,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't get done, it doesn't get implemented, they don't
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  Speaker 1: implement it. Maybe they're from the last administration, and they
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  Speaker 1: are in some cases. You try and get them out
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  Speaker 1: as fast as you can. And he would take that
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  Speaker 1: executive order that I'd sign and he would have those
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  Speaker 1: people go to whatever agency it was. When are you
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  Speaker 1: doing it? Get it done? Get it done. And some
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  Speaker 1: guy that maybe didn't want to do it, all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden he's signing it.
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  Speaker 4: Just doesn't want you want to talk about a dream team.
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  Speaker 4: It is very clear that these two men, they genuinely
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  Speaker 4: love working together every day, they love saving money for Americans.
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  Speaker 4: And now they're even talking about giving you a Doge rebate.
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  Speaker 4: That's right, giving your taxes back to you based on
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  Speaker 4: what they can cut. Elon Musk believes there's about a
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  Speaker 4: trillion dollars and government waste. Wouldn't it be nice to
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  Speaker 4: get a check from Doge. It's something they are working on,
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  Speaker 4: and there's a very good chance it may be coming
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  Speaker 4: to your mailbox in the not too distant future. Next
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  Speaker 4: story number two, Imagine finding four point seven trillion dollars
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  Speaker 4: of treasury payments that are purposely made almost impossible to trace.
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  Speaker 4: That is exactly what your federal government has now been
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  Speaker 4: caught doing. The Treasury Department had sent out more than
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  Speaker 4: four point seven trillion dollars of payments without an identification
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  Speaker 4: code that links a Treasury payment to a budget line
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  Speaker 4: item that comes from Congress. Doge announcing this today, making
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  Speaker 4: these payments, they said, almost impossible to trace, and clearly
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  Speaker 4: the government wanted to do this so you would never
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  Speaker 4: be able to ask questions.
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  Speaker 2: Doade said. The identification payment.
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  Speaker 4: Code called TAS for Treasury Access Symbol is now being
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  Speaker 4: required as of the weekend when they found the problem.
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  Speaker 4: Why because they want to increase the oversight into where
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  Speaker 4: your money actually ends up. The Department of Government Efficiency
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  Speaker 4: tweeting this out. The Treasury Access Symbol TASK is an
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  Speaker 4: identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line
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  Speaker 4: item standard financial process in the federal government. The task
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  Speaker 4: field was optional for four point seven trillion in payments
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  Speaker 4: and was often left blank, making traceability almost impossible. As
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  Speaker 4: of Saturday, this is now being required, increasing the insight
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  Speaker 4: into where your money is actually going. A big thank
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  Speaker 4: you the US Treasury for the great work that again
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  Speaker 4: coming from the Department of Government Efficiency. Fox News also
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  Speaker 4: reported on the importance of the TAS payment code as well,
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  Speaker 4: saying quote according to the Bureau of Fiscal Service, which
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  Speaker 4: is under the Treasury, task codes are used to describe
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  Speaker 4: any one of the account identification codes assigned by the Treasury,
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  Speaker 4: and is also referred to as the quote unquote account.
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  Speaker 4: All financial transactions made by the federal government are classified
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  Speaker 4: by these symbols. When reporting the Treasury, and importantly the
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  Speaker 4: Office of Management and Budget. You may know it is
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  Speaker 4: O now the discovery was announced on the same day. Also,
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  Speaker 4: the DOGE appeared to have populated the savings page, which
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  Speaker 4: as of Monday evening said the total estimated savings since
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  Speaker 4: the establishment of the department has already totaled about fifty
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  Speaker 4: five billion dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Quote.
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  Speaker 4: Major improvement and Treasury Payment Integrity is going live. Elon
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  Speaker 4: Musk posted on x this is a combined effort of DOGE,
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  Speaker 4: the US Treasury, and the Federal Reserve.
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  Speaker 2: Nice work by all.
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  Speaker 4: Now, the absence of the code was discovered during a
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  Speaker 4: DOGE audit of the Treasury Department to find wasteful spending,
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  Speaker 4: fraud and abuse. Democrats guess what. They came out in
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  Speaker 4: full opposition to the audit of the Department of Treasury.
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  Speaker 4: The audit, they said on the ground should never have
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  Speaker 4: been allowed to happen. Why because they said that DOGE,
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  Speaker 4: a department within the federal government, should not have access
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  Speaker 4: to taxpayers sensitive data. Even attorney generals on the left
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  Speaker 4: are now coming out in force. Fourteen states have already
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  Speaker 4: sued to block dogs from accessing the data, alleging executive overreach. Now,
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  Speaker 4: the Treasury Secretary Scott Bassent said this in a statement.
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  Speaker 2: Quote, this is not some roving ban.
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  Speaker 4: This is being done methodically and is going to yield
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  Speaker 4: big savings for the American taxpayer. If there's anything I
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  Speaker 4: can agree on, it is that Donald Trump and Doge
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  Speaker 4: and Elon Musk are not stopping to find you all
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  Speaker 4: of your wasted tax dollars. And here is story number three.
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  Speaker 4: It's a sad reality. Mexico is an essence a failed state.
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  Speaker 4: It is being controlled and run by the cartels. They
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  Speaker 4: choose the leaders, and the leaders do what the cartels say. Well,
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  Speaker 4: there's two very interesting reports that are dealing with Mexico
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  Speaker 4: now and our safety from drugs and also human trafficking. Fetanol,
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  Speaker 4: as you know, is one of the biggest killers in
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  Speaker 4: this country. Where we now have confirmation that the CIA
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  Speaker 4: is flying surveillance drones over the cartels in Mexico. Multiple
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  Speaker 4: outlets are now reporting the CIA is stepping up their
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  Speaker 4: drone flights. The currently unarmed flights are said to be
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  Speaker 4: searching for fetnyl labs that are run by the Mexican cartels,
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  Speaker 4: designated by President Donald Trump as foreign terrorist organizations. One
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  Speaker 4: US officials saying to The New York Times that the
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  Speaker 4: flights will go well into sovereign Mexico quote unquote. Now,
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  Speaker 4: the flights reportedly began during the Biden administration but were
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  Speaker 4: never really used to stop the flow of the drugs.
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  Speaker 4: Then they were stepped up by the new CIA Director
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  Speaker 4: John Radcliffe after President Trump made the foreign terrorist designation.
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  Speaker 4: The flights are not authorized. We're being told at this
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  Speaker 4: point to use lethal force. However, CIA officers are gathering
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  Speaker 4: the intelligence data and they're passing it along to those
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  Speaker 4: that may need to see it.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 4: Tom Hollman was asked about Mexico in general in an
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  Speaker 4: interview that he did earlier. I want you to hear
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  Speaker 4: what he had to say about the country.
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  Speaker 6: Let me ask you a question. It's against the law
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  Speaker 6: in Mexico to traffic children, but they don't do anything
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  Speaker 6: about it. It's against the law in Mexico to transit
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  Speaker 6: through the country, but they don't do anything about it.
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  Speaker 6: Is the Mexican government, in your opinion anti American?
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  Speaker 7: Look, I agree with you. They don't enforce and they
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  Speaker 7: allow illgo analystm all the world to transit Mexico without
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  Speaker 7: a transit visa, which is against the law. By thinking
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  Speaker 7: President Trump has them where he wants them. They've now
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  Speaker 7: put military on their northern border in our southern border,
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  Speaker 7: they are now participating and beginning to participating and remain
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  Speaker 7: in Mexico. President Trump is demanded they take action, and
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  Speaker 7: we're monitoringum. President Trump, you know, he's the game changer.
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  Speaker 7: We've been in office less than a month and I
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  Speaker 7: notice in the last twenty four hours total Southwest border
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  Speaker 7: apprehensions two hundred and twenty nine. Now, I started the
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  Speaker 7: border troil in nineteen eighty four. I've never seen those numbers,
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  Speaker 7: at least I don't remember seeing those numbers. We went
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  Speaker 7: from eleven thousand day under Biden to two hundred and
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  Speaker 7: twenty nine. President Trump's already got Mexico where he wants him,
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  Speaker 7: and he's going to force more on them in their future.
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  Speaker 6: Just quickly, Tom, because I'm up against a break. But
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  Speaker 6: I got to ask you, the cartels are very powerful.
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  Speaker 6: Is the US military use of the US military on
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  Speaker 6: the table to hit cartel targets in Mexico.
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  Speaker 7: That's something we're working on now. By I can tell
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  Speaker 7: you that President Trung's made if Mexican cartels will put
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  Speaker 7: a death right against borbit relagients or a military if
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  Speaker 7: they harm a Borba in the military. President Trump will
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  Speaker 7: wipe them off the face of the earth.
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  Speaker 2: There it is working on.
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  Speaker 4: Striking cartels in Mexico is a real possibility now. President
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  Speaker 4: Trump declared those cartels foreign terrorist organizations on his first
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  Speaker 4: day in office, and now borders are home and is
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  Speaker 4: saying they're active discussions about US military strikes on terrorist
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  Speaker 4: targets in Mexico. This is we're being told that the
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  Speaker 4: Reaper drones are already working on full time surveillance. Quote
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  Speaker 4: from CNN, the CIA is flying the mq DASH nine
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  Speaker 4: Reaper drones. The drones are equipped to deliver lethal payloads,
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  Speaker 4: but are not currently armed. The mq DASH nine drones
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  Speaker 4: used for the mission are not armed, but they can
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  Speaker 4: be equipped with payloads to carry out precision strikes. The
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  Speaker 4: US regularly uses them to target suspect Terris and Syria,
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  Speaker 4: Iraq and Somalia. Well, go back to the very first
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  Speaker 4: statement that I said earlier. Donald Trump has already said
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  Speaker 4: that these cartels are in fact foreign terrorists organization.
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