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Global Aid Giant UNRWA Rocked by Claims of Terror Infiltration · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: So I've always felt that the UN has tremendous potential.
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  Speaker 1: It's not living up to that potential right now. It
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  Speaker 1: really is, and hasn't for a long time. It has.
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  Speaker 1: They are great hopes for it, but it's not being
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  Speaker 1: well run, to be honest, and they're not doing the job.
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  Speaker 1: in settling them. We never seem to get help. That
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  Speaker 1: should be the primary purpose of the UN in nine nations.
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  Speaker 2: If you're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with
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  Speaker 2: Ben ferguson.
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  Speaker 3: Good Monday morning, nice to have you with us on
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  Speaker 3: the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got a massive
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  Speaker 3: breaking news story for you. Your tax dollars are apparently going
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  Speaker 3: to terrorists in UNRUP who are directly tied to Hamas
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  Speaker 3: and even involved in the October seventh attax. So how
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  Speaker 3: do we stop having our tax hours go to UNRUP
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  Speaker 3: and can the present move to declare their terrorist organization.
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  Speaker 3: That's exactly what may happen, and we have all the
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  Speaker 3: detail than else for you. But before we get to that,
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  Speaker 3: Update and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 3: There is a US probe of the embattled UN Gaza
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  Speaker 3: Relief Agency. It has now expanded to more than one thousand,
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  Speaker 3: five hundred staffers that have suspected ties directly to terrorist
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  Speaker 3: organizations like a moss. It is known as UNRA and
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  Speaker 3: it could soon be labeled a foreign terrorist organization. But
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  Speaker 3: your tax dollurs have actually been going there. There is
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  Speaker 3: momentum now growing for un OR to lose its diplomatic
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  Speaker 3: community as well, which would expose it to lawsuits from
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  Speaker 3: October seven survivors and victims' families. Now the media is
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  Speaker 3: not covering this. Thank goodness to Free beacon Is, and
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  Speaker 3: that's why we're going to use this show, and I
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  Speaker 3: hope you will take this show and share it everywhere
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  Speaker 3: you can on social media because what I'm about to
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  Speaker 3: tell you should enrage all of you. Now. The federal
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  Speaker 3: investigation is into the staff at the United Nations Relief
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  Speaker 3: and Work Agency. It is the UN Gods, a relief
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  Speaker 3: organization that's been closely linked now directly to Hamas. They
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  Speaker 3: say it will soon encompass more than one thousand, five
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  Speaker 3: hundred unrelinked individuals suspected of direct terror ties. Now, this
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  Speaker 3: is an unprecedented dragnet reported here for the first time
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  Speaker 3: by the for Washing Free Beacon. Where all the other
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  Speaker 3: media outlets and why are they not covering this is
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  Speaker 3: the question you should be asking, because all they did
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  Speaker 3: was ask basic questions and they expose now what has
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  Speaker 3: been described as a humanitarian aid group, that's not what
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  Speaker 3: they were at all, brimming with hamas operative, so actual
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  Speaker 3: terrorists within UNRUP. And then it's generating momentum because of
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  Speaker 3: this report in Congress and the Trump administration for not
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  Speaker 3: only harsher sanctions on the umbattled a group, but then
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  Speaker 3: maybe even designating them a terrorists organization. Quote. The punitive
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  Speaker 3: measures up for consideration include stripping UNRA of its diplomatic
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  Speaker 3: community under US law, which would open it up to
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  Speaker 3: legal action from terror victims, and fully designate the eight
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  Speaker 3: organizations a foreign terrorist organization because they're not doing eight
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  Speaker 3: at all. They're filled with terrorists. They are literally a
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  Speaker 3: terrorist organization. Now that's coming according with not one, not two,
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  Speaker 3: but three Trump administration officials and other sources tracking the
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  Speaker 3: matter in Congress. Now again, why is this the first
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  Speaker 3: that you and I are hearing about? This is the
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  Speaker 3: question we should all be asking now. These discussions have
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  Speaker 3: apparently accelerated since The Free Beacon reported in April that
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  Speaker 3: UNDER and other un agencies are stonewalling a federal probe
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  Speaker 3: into their ties directly to HAMAS. The US Agency for
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  Speaker 3: International Development Inspector General's Office, a law enforcement agency separate
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  Speaker 3: from the largely defunct USAID, has spent months independently unearthing
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  Speaker 3: evidence that countless UNRA employees actually participated. Listen carefully to
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  Speaker 3: this in the Hamas October seventh tear attacks. So these
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  Speaker 3: UNRA employees were the terrorists in the October seventh tear attack.
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  Speaker 3: They say the probe will soon expand to more than
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  Speaker 3: one hundred and one thousand, five hundred suspected militants with
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  Speaker 3: direct UNRUN ties. Now, UNRA an official organ of the
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  Speaker 3: notoriously anti Israel United Nations. Your tax dollars goes there,
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  Speaker 3: Your tax dollars goes to. UNRA is the only a
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  Speaker 3: group with a large operation quote unquote in Gaza. Well,
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  Speaker 3: apparently it's just funneling money to terrorists. With as many
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  Speaker 3: as thirteen thousand, they say, godzen employees and a large
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  Speaker 3: distribution network. Man that seems to work perfect for terrorist organization. Now,
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  Speaker 3: you and officials have insisted, of course, and lied for years,
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  Speaker 3: that's the only viable option for getting aid relief to
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  Speaker 3: the Gazens who are in need. Israel and its supporters
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  Speaker 3: of long claim that UNRA is fully infiltrated by Hamas.
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  Speaker 3: Now we see the evidence of that and has cemented
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  Speaker 3: the terror group's control also over a distribution and much
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  Speaker 3: of that aid is actually sold off and they make
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  Speaker 3: money off of it, which is even more shocking. Now
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  Speaker 3: Usaid Inspector General is currently working with a state department
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  Speaker 3: in the latter's effort to build a blacklist that will
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  Speaker 3: ensure terror linked under employees cannot circulate to other aid
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  Speaker 3: organizations within the United Nations systems. Because again, this is
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  Speaker 3: the this is the United Nations. It's been infiltrated by
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  Speaker 3: terrorists organizations, and your dollars are going to them. The
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  Speaker 3: Inspector General has already confirmed that one under school principle,
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  Speaker 3: So it's a school principle participated in the October seventh
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  Speaker 3: attacks as a member of Hamas's East Battalion and has
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  Speaker 3: flagged multiple others for the State Department as well. Quote
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  Speaker 3: the USAID Inspector General's cases coming in droves are corroborating
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  Speaker 3: the obvious parent subsidy relationship between UNRA and Hamas and Gaza.
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  Speaker 3: A senior State Department official familiar with the investigation told
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  Speaker 3: the Free Beacon, saying if UNRA was not a un organization,
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  Speaker 3: it would be undeniably facing terrorist sanctions based on what
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  Speaker 3: USAID ig has uncovered now. This ongoing Usaid Inspector General investigation,
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  Speaker 3: sources said, would logically not only lead to labeling UNRE
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  Speaker 3: as a foreign terrorist group, but they say that the
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  Speaker 3: probe quote confirms that if it walks like a foreign
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  Speaker 3: terrorist organization, and it talks like a foreign terrorist organization
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  Speaker 3: and employees foreign teens, terrist organization personnel, then a case
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  Speaker 3: actually exists that it should be a foreign terrorist organization.
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  Speaker 3: A second US official also confirming that the Trump administration
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  Speaker 3: has to consider a whole of world approach to UNRA
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  Speaker 3: that includes further executive action and policies that would strip
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  Speaker 3: the AID group's diplomatic immunity, says, if UNRA could be
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  Speaker 3: sued in the American courts, the agency could very well
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  Speaker 3: collapse under the strain of defending itself from an October
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  Speaker 3: seventh related complaint alone, because there's a torrent of them.
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  Speaker 3: If this many people were involved in that terrorist attack quote,
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot here we can do, said the official,
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  Speaker 3: a lot we could do. There has to be consequences
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  Speaker 3: for UNRA for its conduct and the run up and
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  Speaker 3: the role in October seventh and continuing all the way
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  Speaker 3: to today with its ongoing refusal to adhere to legitimate
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  Speaker 3: and pressing American inquiries, and the Trump administration stripped virtually
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  Speaker 3: all remaining US funding in February, citing its established links
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  Speaker 3: to HAMAS. The agency, however, still enjoys that diplomatic community,
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  Speaker 3: and they can access some funds from the larger un
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  Speaker 3: budget which your tax dollars go to, and they facilitate
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  Speaker 3: hamas's continue control over a distribution in Gaza, and without immunities,
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  Speaker 3: the source explained, there is a potential exposure for a
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  Speaker 3: foreign terist organization designation and then the massive lawsuits which
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  Speaker 3: would then be for the courts to adjudicate now. Additionally,
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  Speaker 3: they say the unrefunding remains a line item in the
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  Speaker 3: UN budget and there's still American tax payer dollers going
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  Speaker 3: towards that, and that's unacceptable. A third US official confirmed
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  Speaker 3: the appetite for such action has been building since it
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  Speaker 3: became abundantly clear that under an other UN organizations, because
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  Speaker 3: again is not the only one, We're not cooperating with
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  Speaker 3: the USAID Inspector General's probe wine because they don't want
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  Speaker 3: you to know that they're actually terrorists and that your
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  Speaker 3: tax dollars are going to fund a terrorist organization and
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  Speaker 3: even tears attacks like October seventh.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: The USAID Inspector General also sent a letter to six
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  Speaker 3: separate UN agencies and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah you heard me say, the Red Cross in December,
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  Speaker 3: asking them to name all employees who worked on US
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  Speaker 3: government funded awards and provide their contact information and data
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  Speaker 3: and place of birth. The office also asked the agencies
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  Speaker 3: to detail their interactions with Hamas, among other requests. None,
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna say it again, none of the responding UN
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  Speaker 3: recipients provided the request of information pertaining to their personnel.
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  Speaker 3: The Inspector General exposing that last month quote. Given its
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  Speaker 3: history with hamas, NRA does not have the luxury of
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  Speaker 3: not cooperating with an investigation and thinking there might be
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  Speaker 3: not be consequences, said the US official. We will respond
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  Speaker 3: accordingly now. Elements of all these discussions have also spilled
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  Speaker 3: into public view in the recent days, as lawmakers call
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  Speaker 3: for UNRA to be fully dismantled. Senator Tom Cotton, a
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  Speaker 3: Republican from Arkansas, now has twenty four of his colleagues
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  Speaker 3: citing the Usaid Inspector General's ongoing work, and they are
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  Speaker 3: now urging the Trump administration to take decisive action to
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  Speaker 3: fully dismantled under and eliminate it from the UN budget.
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  Speaker 3: Mike Lawler, a Republican from New York, and ninety other
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  Speaker 3: lawmakers in the House issued a similar call. On Friday.
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  Speaker 3: Cotton told The Free Beacon that unre hiss terrorist ties
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  Speaker 3: are clear, and the UN's attempt to hide those ties
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  Speaker 3: from the US government is deeply concerning. It's a long
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  Speaker 3: past time to completely dismantle the organization. Senator Ted Cruz
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  Speaker 3: and Bill Haggerty, Republican from Tennessee, very influential members and
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  Speaker 3: Senate Formulations Committee, both told the Free beacon that it's
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  Speaker 3: time to move beyond merely freezing unresfunding, particularly as the
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  Speaker 3: USAID Inspector General continues to unearth evidence of Hamas' complicity.
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  Speaker 3: Either they come clear or I expect growing momentum for
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  Speaker 3: designating them for the support they give to terrorists, Crew said.
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  Speaker 3: Haggarty called it appalling that other UN agencies today are
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  Speaker 3: still stonewalling the Trump administration's ongoing investigations, adding that if
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  Speaker 3: UN agencies refuse to show basic transparency and then accountability,
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  Speaker 3: then the Executive branch and Congress must respond. Richard Goldberg,
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  Speaker 3: who served in both Trump administrations, currently a senior advisor
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  Speaker 3: with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tanks, that
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  Speaker 3: authorities already exist to impose terrorism sanctions on UNDRA if
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  Speaker 3: the President so chooses. The Justice Department's position right now
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  Speaker 3: is that UNDRA does not enjoy privilege or immunity. Goldberg
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  Speaker 3: said that means nothing stops the Treasury Department from imposing
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  Speaker 3: terrorism sanctions on UNRA to force its closure. Some people
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  Speaker 3: might be afraid of breaking eggs at the UN while
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  Speaker 3: the Gods Aboard of Peace is still young, but I
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  Speaker 3: guarantee under its survival will be the death of the
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  Speaker 3: or to piece the second Donald Trump leaves office. By
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  Speaker 3: the way, I couldn't agree more. Let me say a
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  Speaker 3: couple of things here in closing. One, God blessed the
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  Speaker 3: Washington Free Beacon for doing this work, because it's incredible
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  Speaker 3: what they just expose. Number two, this is why I
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  Speaker 3: do this show, to give you this type of information.
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  Speaker 3: And then I hope what you will do is take
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  Speaker 3: this exact information and share a podcast anywhere you can
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  Speaker 3: on social media. You can also text a link to
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  Speaker 3: the podcast anybody in your phone contact list so that
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  Speaker 3: they can hear what I just gave you. There needs
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  Speaker 3: to be insane amounts of pressure from US as Americans
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  Speaker 3: on Congress right now, telling Congress right now, hey guys,
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  Speaker 3: we're not going to send you any more money if
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna give it to terrorists organizations. By the way,
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  Speaker 3: that's not crazy, that's common sense. Common sense says exactly that.
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  Speaker 3: Common sense says, you don't send money to terrorists. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna say that one more time. You don't send
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  Speaker 3: money American tax dollars to terrorists. That's what you don't do.
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  Speaker 3: And I think all of this should be angry. We
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  Speaker 3: should be frustrated. We should be demanding accountability in a
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  Speaker 3: way that we have not seen so far.
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