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Trump’s High-Stakes push in China while Operatives become Mayor here in SoCal · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: We have two very interesting stories that we're going to
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  Speaker 1: start off with today, and a lot of it deals
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  Speaker 1: with China and just how much they're trying to infiltrate
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  Speaker 1: and being successful at it in this country, possibly stealing
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  Speaker 1: major national security secrets and government information, as well as
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  Speaker 1: influencing the towns that many of you are living in.
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  Speaker 1: Perfect example of this is what we've just learned about
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  Speaker 1: a celebrated democrat, a female California mayor is now admitted
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  Speaker 1: to being a secret spy for China, and she looks
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  Speaker 1: very different to her photoshopped original images, which is part
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  Speaker 1: of the story. Now, the mayor of the wealthy southern
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  Speaker 1: California city has since resigned after admitting she secretly acted
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  Speaker 1: as an agent for the Chinese government. According to the
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  Speaker 1: federal plea agreement that was unsealed on Monday, the former
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  Speaker 1: Arcadia mayor, just outside of la her name was Wang,
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  Speaker 1: She's fifty eight, and she agreed to plead guilty to
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  Speaker 1: felony charge of acting as an illegal foreign agent for
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  Speaker 1: the People's Republic of China and helping push pro Beijing
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  Speaker 1: propaganda inside the US. Now, you may ask yourself, why
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  Speaker 1: would they want a random mayor well, let's be clear,
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  Speaker 1: China wasn't getting a random mayor. They were getting a
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  Speaker 1: mayor of a very wealthy suburb of la and that
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  Speaker 1: is exactly how she could help push pro Beijing propaganda
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  Speaker 1: not only inside the US, but also with those that
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  Speaker 1: have so much influence over our culture in Los Angeles. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the interesting part about the crime that she's been charged
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  Speaker 1: with is it carries a sentence of up to ten
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  Speaker 1: years in federal prison. The stunning case prompted immediate fallout
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  Speaker 1: in Arcadia, where city officials confirm Wang stepped down from
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  Speaker 1: both the city council and the mayor's office on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: Federal prosecutors alleged Wang spent years, let me say it again,
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  Speaker 1: years working on the direction of Chinese government officials before
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  Speaker 1: rising into elected office in Los Angeles County. They also
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  Speaker 1: claim she used a Chinese language news website to distribute
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  Speaker 1: propaganda favorable to Beijing while secretly coordinating with officials tied
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  Speaker 1: to the Chinese Communist Party. This wasn't a low level operation,
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  Speaker 1: this was full influence on the Communist Party in China.
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  Speaker 1: Authorities described the website as a fake news platform specifically
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  Speaker 1: targeting Chinese Americans. And that's where they find many of
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  Speaker 1: their spies. Now, the case is also triggered intense scrutiny
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  Speaker 1: of Wang's carefully crafted public image. Again, China plays at
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  Speaker 1: a different level. They've gone pro is the best way
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  Speaker 1: I can describe it. Campaign photos and promotional images used
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  Speaker 1: during her political rise depicted Wang and heavily polished and
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  Speaker 1: retouched portraits that projected a glamorous and approachable persona to
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  Speaker 1: the voters. I'll go back to the core point here,
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  Speaker 1: China has gone pro in influencing America.
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  Speaker 2: Now, the unedited.
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  Speaker 1: Public images reveal a stark contrast to the stylized campaign
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  Speaker 1: photographs that once appeared across city political materials and social media.
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  Speaker 1: Her dramatic downfall came just hours after the City of
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  Speaker 1: Arcadia announced Wang's resignation from the city Council and her
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  Speaker 1: departure as the mayor. As a May eleventh, twenty sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: Wang resigned from the Arcadia City Council, vacating her position
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  Speaker 1: as mayor. The city said in a simple statement posted online. Now.
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  Speaker 1: On its next meeting, the city council says they will
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  Speaker 1: select a new mayor and a Mayor pro tem from
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  Speaker 1: among the remaining council members, and we'll begin discussing how
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  Speaker 1: Arcadia is District III will be represented until next year's
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  Speaker 1: election cycle in November. Wang was elected to the Arcadia
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  Speaker 1: City Council in twenty twenty two and later elevated to
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  Speaker 1: mayor the city's rotating leadership system. According to the Department
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  Speaker 1: of Justice, however, Wang's ties to Chinese officials stretched back
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  Speaker 1: well before she ever took office, which is exactly how
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  Speaker 1: they have so much influence in America right now. Federal
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  Speaker 1: authorities say that from late twenty twenty through twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: Wang worked alongside her then fiance under the direction and
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  Speaker 1: control of officials tied to the Chinese government. Together, prosecutors
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  Speaker 1: say they operated the website called US News Center, which
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  Speaker 1: presented itself as a legitimate Chinese American news outlet while
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  Speaker 1: allegedly serving as nothing more than a propaganda vehicle for Beijing,
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  Speaker 1: specifically to have major influence in the US. According to
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  Speaker 1: the court filings, Chinese officials sent Wang's articles and directives
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  Speaker 1: through the encrypted messaging app we Chat, instructing her and
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  Speaker 1: others to publish content that would be favorable to the
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  Speaker 1: Chinese Communist Party. One of the most explosive examples outlined
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  Speaker 1: in the plea agreement involved propaganda denying allegations of genocide
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  Speaker 1: and forced labor in China. On June tenth, twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: at Chinese government official also allegedly sent Wang a pre
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  Speaker 1: written article. It was titled China's stance on the of
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  Speaker 1: course forced labor issue.
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  Speaker 2: Now there is no genocide.
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  Speaker 1: It started with, there is no such thing as forced
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  Speaker 1: labor in any production activity, including cotton production. Spreading such
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  Speaker 1: rumor as to defame China and destroy the safety in
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  Speaker 1: stability the message rate, according to prosecutors, now we all
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  Speaker 1: know that there are many people that are actually yes
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  Speaker 1: slaves and slave labor in China, like the Wigers, which
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  Speaker 1: is a huge problem for China because the world knows
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  Speaker 1: that many of them are enslaved against their will and
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  Speaker 1: are being abused as.
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  Speaker 2: We speak now.
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  Speaker 1: The court document also says that Wang immediately reposted the
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  Speaker 1: Chinese Communist Party propaganda to her website literally within minutes,
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  Speaker 1: and then immediately sent the official link proving that it
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  Speaker 1: had been published in America. So fast, Thank you everyone,
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  Speaker 1: The official responded authorities say Wang repeatedly reported analytics and
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  Speaker 1: audience engagement data back to Chinese officials after publishing the
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  Speaker 1: propaganda articles for years in the US. In one August
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one exchange side in the Plea agreement, Wang
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  Speaker 1: sent screenshots showing an article had to receive more than
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  Speaker 1: fifteen thousand views after officials requested edits to the story,
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  Speaker 1: saying great. The official responded, according to the prosecutors, thank you, Leader,
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  Speaker 1: Wang replied, Now, Federal prosecutor say Wang never disclosed that
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  Speaker 1: the Chinese government was directing the content appearing on her website.
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  Speaker 1: The case became even more alarming to investigators because Wang
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  Speaker 1: ultimately has sent it into public office.
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  Speaker 2: Now, this isn't the.
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  Speaker 1: Only story that should be shocking you right now, which
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  Speaker 1: brings me to part two of what I was saying
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  Speaker 1: about out just how concern you should be about what's
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  Speaker 1: happening with China. We now know from a New York
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  Speaker 1: Times report that their headline pretty much says it all. Quote,
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  Speaker 1: he offered a lawmaker's aid quick cash. Was he spying
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  Speaker 1: for China? A staff member on the House China Committee
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  Speaker 1: was promised ten thousand dollars for US policy insights on
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  Speaker 1: issues like Venezuela and rare Earth minerals. When a man
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  Speaker 1: identifying himself as Chris Chen reached out this winter to
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  Speaker 1: an aid on the House Committee focus on Threats from China,
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  Speaker 1: he came armed with a lucrative offer. The staff member,
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  Speaker 1: mister Chen proposed could earn ten thousand or more by
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  Speaker 1: barely lifting a finger. All he would need to do
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  Speaker 1: is agreed to phone calls every other week to share
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  Speaker 1: information about the committee's work and US foreign policy about China.
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  Speaker 1: Insights in the US trade or national security issue use,
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  Speaker 1: including the Trump administration's planned for Venezuela and the aftermath
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  Speaker 1: of the January military operation there would be especially valuable,
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  Speaker 1: mister Chen said. To sweeten the pot, mister Chen reportedly
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  Speaker 1: promised to send the AID two thousand dollars up front.
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  Speaker 1: The offer seemed too good to be true. Instead of
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  Speaker 1: quietly accepting the deal, the aid, whose identity The New
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  Speaker 1: York Times agreed to withhold because he works on sense
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  Speaker 1: of policy issues related to China, reported to his bosses
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  Speaker 1: on the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party.
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  Speaker 1: The panel quickly concluded mister Chen was not the Singapore
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  Speaker 1: based business consultant he claimed to be, but instead likely
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  Speaker 1: a Chinese intelligence officer or contractor seeking a new recruit.
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  Speaker 1: By framing the initial offers a quote trial period, we
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  Speaker 1: learned mister Chang dangled the expectation of a longer relationship,
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  Speaker 1: obviously with more payments to come. So if you think
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  Speaker 1: this is a one off, it's not. The scary part
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  Speaker 1: is right now there's hotelling how many people are willing
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  Speaker 1: to take money from China to sell out the United
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  Speaker 1: States of America within our government all over the country.
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  Speaker 1: CIA whistleblower went before Capitol Hill yesterday revealing that despite
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  Speaker 1: a majority of CIA scientists concluding overwhelmingly that COVID leaked
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  Speaker 1: from a lab in Wuhan, Anthony Fauci was able to
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  Speaker 1: convince high ranking Intel officials to change their assessment from
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  Speaker 1: a lab leak to a neutral idea. Why because they
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  Speaker 1: need to cover up the narrative that the Wuhan instead
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  Speaker 1: of virology, which was tied directly to Anthony Fauci, was
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  Speaker 1: actually involved. What's even more shocking than that is the
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  Speaker 1: CIA whistle blower also said that the CIA is still
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  Speaker 1: blocking full declassification of COVID documents. Why is it to
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  Speaker 1: protect Fauci or is it to protect China? I want
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  Speaker 1: you to hear the back and forth from Center Rand
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  Speaker 1: Paul and the CIA whistle blower explaining exactly just how
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  Speaker 1: bad it really is.
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  Speaker 3: But what I think is of importance that's new today
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  Speaker 3: is that your testimony is that the CIA scientists were
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  Speaker 3: concluding that it was lab. But then with this, there
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  Speaker 3: was a ninety day study in twenty twenty one, and
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  Speaker 3: this study was done by NIC led by NIC tell Us.
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  Speaker 3: What NIC is again, it's.
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  Speaker 4: The National Intelligence Council and individuals responsible for writing various
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  Speaker 4: WD and bio related issues.
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  Speaker 3: So when they had this study, they had CIA scientists
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  Speaker 3: telling them, look the evidence, the scientific evidence looks like.
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  Speaker 2: It came from the lab.
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  Speaker 3: But then they brought in Anthony Fauci. And is it
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  Speaker 3: your opinion that Anthony Fauci was able to overrule the
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  Speaker 3: scientist or get ANIC to conclude somehow that there wasn't
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  Speaker 3: a conclusion to be out here, we're going to be neutral,
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  Speaker 3: contradicting what the scientists were telling them.
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  Speaker 4: So there's two questions there, and I want to break
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  Speaker 4: them up into two. One is where were the injection
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  Speaker 4: points doctor Anthony Fauch. Where did doctor Anthony Fauci and
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  Speaker 4: when did he inject himself into the IC, and the
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  Speaker 4: other half of that question, if I'm, if I'm, and
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to extrapolate too much, here is okay
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  Speaker 4: what happened with why was there a change in analysis?
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  Speaker 4: So I'll start with the if it's okay, doctor Paul, sure, Senator,
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  Speaker 4: I'll start with doctor Anthony Fauci. There were two instances,
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  Speaker 4: on three February twenty twenty and four June twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 4: Anthony Fauci had contact with the Inner Agency, and how
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  Speaker 4: to sort of broadly generalize this is that that contact
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  Speaker 4: was happily pursued within the IC. They wanted that contact,
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  Speaker 4: and he provided a curated list of subject matter experts,
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  Speaker 4: which coincidentally wrote The Proximal Origin of Sarskov too. So
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  Speaker 4: it's not like he came in and said you have
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  Speaker 4: to do X, Y and Z provided recommendations. It's when
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  Speaker 4: you look at when you look at what has already
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  Speaker 4: been publicly released about doctor Fauci and then what you're
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  Speaker 4: seeing under the curtain at the IC, where you realize, okay,
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  Speaker 4: there is a narrative that was being generated by his contact,
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  Speaker 4: not just with experts here in the United States, but
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  Speaker 4: experts in Australia and the UK, and that's the public
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  Speaker 4: facing piece, and you know, he tries to he had
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  Speaker 4: tried to sort of keep his hands clear of I
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  Speaker 4: didn't have anything to do with the proximal origin of
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  Speaker 4: Sarskov too. But in the meantime he's pushing those authors
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  Speaker 4: and individuals that have been in his orbit into the
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  Speaker 4: IC as experts. And I'll jump to June twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 4: We as the IC at the neck happily pursued those recommendations.
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  Speaker 4: And in one email, which I'll describe to you, the
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  Speaker 4: person in charge of leading the ninety day study, you know,
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  Speaker 4: he introduced himself to the community that on what they
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  Speaker 4: on what they were supposed to be doing, and then
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  Speaker 4: the community said, he said, listen, we've got these people
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  Speaker 4: we should be talking to. And another very senior NICK
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  Speaker 4: officer sent in direct email to him saying, Hey, considering
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  Speaker 4: that doctor Fauci is a public health expert, are you
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  Speaker 4: sure we should be relying on this? Shouldn't we shouldn't
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  Speaker 4: we have a separate set And in this instance the
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  Speaker 4: individual responded no. In this case, doctor Anthony Fauci is
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  Speaker 4: a subject matter expert. However, that's directly contradicting his public
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  Speaker 4: testimony of being a subject matter.
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  Speaker 3: Part of the job in intelligence when you interview someone
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  Speaker 3: is assessing their truthfulness, their potential biases or conflicts of interest.
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  Speaker 3: Did anyone ever bring up that Anthony Fauci approved the
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  Speaker 3: research that went on in Wuhan and that it might
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  Speaker 3: not be in his interest for the conclusion to be
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  Speaker 3: that it came from a lab that he had funded,
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  Speaker 3: that there might be a conflict that was Did any
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  Speaker 3: everybody ever bring up that he might not be an
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  Speaker 3: objective witness?
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  Speaker 4: That was one example of an email. No one laid
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  Speaker 4: it out quite that clearly. You're piecing it together. We
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  Speaker 4: were piecing it together from multiple emails, from multiple agencies,
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  Speaker 4: multiple documents. It was, it was. It was more subtle
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  Speaker 4: than that. Nobody said this is happening, and unfortunately, I
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  Speaker 4: think they probably should have it all. It was all
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  Speaker 4: out there.
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  Speaker 3: But your conclusion is that changing from the scientific consensus
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  Speaker 3: of it being from a lab to a neutral position
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  Speaker 3: by the CIA was significantly influenced by Anthony Fauci.
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  Speaker 4: It was significantly influenced by Anthony Fauci's injecting himself into
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  Speaker 4: the IC and to go to the second part of
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  Speaker 4: your question about what happened particularly during the ninety day study.
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  Speaker 4: We have documentation that shows that as of August twelfth,
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  Speaker 4: the CIA was considering calling this a lab leak August
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  Speaker 4: twelfth of twenty twenty one, and then that changed on
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  Speaker 4: August seventeenth of twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: Now what it's even more shocking about the hearing and
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  Speaker 1: what you just heard. There is not a single Democrat
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  Speaker 1: heard any of what you just heard. Why because apparently
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  Speaker 1: not a single Democrat showed up to the Senate hearing
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  Speaker 1: today where the CIA was the blower was testifying about
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  Speaker 1: the COVID cover up. Could it be maybe because they
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  Speaker 1: were all involved in it too. Listen now, Fox News
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  Speaker 1: explain no Democrats in attendance.
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  Speaker 5: In this picture, because just a few minutes ago, just
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  Speaker 5: shy of the top of the hour, you could see
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  Speaker 5: over the left shoulder of Senator Ron Johnson the empty
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  Speaker 5: seats of Democrats and we can show, I mean, look
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  Speaker 5: at that room. And even James Erdman, who is the
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  Speaker 5: whistleblower witness today, was asked about and I believe it
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  Speaker 5: was Senator Yes Bernie Moreno who asked him this. How
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  Speaker 5: does that make you feel knowing that those Democrats aren't there,
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  Speaker 5: and he says that, of course I wish that they were.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you want everyone to know.
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  Speaker 2: What he has to say.
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  Speaker 1: It really is amazing to know that you have a
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  Speaker 1: CIA whistleblower coming forward on the issue of COVID. It
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  Speaker 1: involves Anthony Fauci Democrats, God, and none of the Democrats
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  Speaker 1: will show up to hear what the whistleblower has to say.
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  Speaker 1: There should be massive accountability for that, and also a
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  Speaker 1: lot more questions that should be asked of democratic lawmakers
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  Speaker 1: of why you.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't show up.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's do a quick recap of what has
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  Speaker 1: been happening in China as President Donald Trump has visited Beijing,
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  Speaker 1: and it's already being described by not only the White
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  Speaker 1: House but also Chinese state media is one of the
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  Speaker 1: most significant US China summits in years, and politically, economically,
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  Speaker 1: and strategically, the visit is shaping up as a major
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  Speaker 1: moment for this administration. Now, the headlines so far has
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  Speaker 1: been pretty simple. After years of tariff wars, economic uncertainty,
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  Speaker 1: and rising tensions between Washington and Beijing, Trump walked into
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  Speaker 1: China looking to prove that he can negotiate from a
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  Speaker 1: position of strength instead of weakness, and walk away with
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  Speaker 1: a deal that directly benefits the American workers, American manufacturing,
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  Speaker 1: and American exports as well, and so far, the White
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  Speaker 1: House believes that's exactly what has happened.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: One of the biggest developments that has come out of
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  Speaker 1: the summit is the expectation of massive new Chinese purchases
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  Speaker 1: of American goods, including Boeing aircraft, American agriculture, and US
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  Speaker 1: energy exports.
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  Speaker 2: The Treasury Secretary of.
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  Speaker 1: Scott Bessen said officials expect major announcements involving Boeing orders
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  Speaker 1: during the trip, which has happened along with expanded access
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  Speaker 1: for American companies into Chinese markets. Now that matters enormously
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  Speaker 1: for the American economy, the American worker, and the American farmer.
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  Speaker 1: A large Boeing deal alone could support thousands of high
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  Speaker 1: paying manufacturing jobs and states across the US add in
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  Speaker 1: soybean exports, agricultural contracts, energy sales, and technology investment. And
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  Speaker 1: the White House is now framing this trip as proof
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  Speaker 1: that Donald Trump's aggressive trade posture against China force Beijing
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  Speaker 1: back to the negotiating table. And remember just over a
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  Speaker 1: year ago the two countries were locked into a brutal
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  Speaker 1: trade war. Now, if you think the present's blowing smoke,
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  Speaker 1: you weren't paying attention to just how nice the Chinese
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  Speaker 1: were to the present in greeting him. It was something
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  Speaker 1: you talked about with Sean Hannity on Fox News Interview.
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  Speaker 6: We appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, they rolled out the red carpet.
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  Speaker 6: I have a video of when Barack Hussein Obama came
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  Speaker 6: to China. There wasn't as much pageantry from your perspective,
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  Speaker 6: that welcome.
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  Speaker 2: What did that?
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  Speaker 6: How did you interpret that?
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  Speaker 7: Well, we have a relationship he and I and we've
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  Speaker 7: been working together a long time. We've gotten along well.
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  Speaker 7: When I first came here, China was really taking advantage
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  Speaker 7: of the United States. He understands that, and now we
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  Speaker 7: do great with China and we have a very good relationship.
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  Speaker 7: We have a friendship.
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  Speaker 2: Really.
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  Speaker 7: He's a tremendous leader. He's been here a long time,
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  Speaker 7: very powerful, very strong, there's no doubt about it. And
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  Speaker 7: we just have a good relationship. I did actually see
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  Speaker 7: other people arrive here they're not treated so well, but
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  Speaker 7: we were treated very well.
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  Speaker 6: So that was meaningful for you.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, if I got out of a plane and
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  Speaker 7: nobody was there to greet me, I would say that
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  Speaker 7: wouldn't be so cool, because it's really a respect for
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  Speaker 7: our country, our countries respected to look with the hottest
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  Speaker 7: country right now anywhere in the world. But he and
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  Speaker 7: I know each other well, I think beyond maybe that.
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  Speaker 7: But we certainly got a very nice greeting, and today
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  Speaker 7: was beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: The President talking about just how beautiful it was to
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  Speaker 1: be respected as a country. And all of this happened
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  Speaker 1: because of the tough work the President did. Remember the
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  Speaker 1: tariff skyrocketed, supply chains were disrupted, rare with minerals, became
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  Speaker 1: a major leverage point for the White House. China retaliated
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  Speaker 1: against the US, and with their tariffs and tensions over Taiwan,
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  Speaker 1: you also have fights over artificial intelligence, semiconductors, and military
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  Speaker 1: influence in the Pacific pushed the relationship, you could argue,
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  Speaker 1: to the edge. But now the Trump administration is showing
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  Speaker 1: that Trump's hardline approach created real leverage and instead of
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  Speaker 1: backing down, Trump kept the pressure up on Beijing, kept
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  Speaker 1: it up through the tariffs, through the trade restrictions, and
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  Speaker 1: efforts to rebuild American manufact and now, according to the
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  Speaker 1: administration officials, China is signaling it wants what they describe
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  Speaker 1: is stability and access to the US economy more than
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  Speaker 1: they want confrontation. That's one reason this summit is being
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  Speaker 1: viewed as such a major diplomatic moment. Another huge story
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  Speaker 1: from the visits the presence of major American business leaders
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  Speaker 1: traveling alongside the president. We're talking about CEOs and tech
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  Speaker 1: leaders participating in meetings, including executives connected to Boeing, Apple, Tesla,
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  Speaker 1: and other major companies. Trump even told Fox News that
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  Speaker 1: Chinese officials discussed potentially investing hundreds of billions of dollars
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  Speaker 1: into US link technology and business partnerships. Now, politically, that
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  Speaker 1: gives Trump something to love to campaign on investment, job creation,
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  Speaker 1: and manufacturing, not overseas but back in the United States.
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  Speaker 1: The White House has already portraying this trip as evidence
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  Speaker 1: that Trump's economic nationalism has worked, that the tariffs worked,
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  Speaker 1: that pressure forced China into real negotiations for the first
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  Speaker 1: time in decades and previous administrations they never even got
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  Speaker 1: close to what is happening right now. And then there's
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  Speaker 1: a geopolitical side of all this trip as well. The
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  Speaker 1: summit hasn't just focused on economics. The two leaders have
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  Speaker 1: also spent extensive time discussing Iran, Taiwan, artificial intelligence, critical minerals,
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  Speaker 1: military tensions, as.
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  Speaker 2: Well as global stability.
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  Speaker 1: One of the biggest concerns for the administration right now
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  Speaker 1: is China's relationship with Iran.
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  Speaker 2: They are drunk on Iranian oil.
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  Speaker 1: China remains one of the largest buyers of Iranian oil,
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  Speaker 1: and the White House wants Beijing to pressure Tehran towards
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  Speaker 1: de escalation as well as negotiations. Reuters is reporting that
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  Speaker 1: Trump's team has been urging China to help stabilize the
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  Speaker 1: region and avoid further disruptions tied to the straight of
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  Speaker 1: Hormuz crisis. And that's critical because the global economy is
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  Speaker 1: watching every market very carefully right now. If China cooperates
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  Speaker 1: even partially with the United States on Iran, the administration
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  Speaker 1: could claim a major international win, especially given the economic
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  Speaker 1: consequences of instability in the Middle East. And there are
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  Speaker 1: still major fault lines between the two countries. Everyone knows
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  Speaker 1: that Taiwan remains one of the most dangerous flashpoints in
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  Speaker 1: the world. Chinese President reportedly Warren Trump that mishandling Taiwan
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  Speaker 1: could lead to a quote major conflict. At the same time,
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  Speaker 1: the US is continuing to back Taiwan militarily as well
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  Speaker 1: as strategically, which Beijing is furious about. They don't like
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  Speaker 1: it and they describe it as interference in its internal affairs.
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  Speaker 1: And then there's the race on AI and technology competition.
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  Speaker 1: Both the US and China are trying to get a
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  Speaker 1: leg up on one another, and they're trying to understand
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  Speaker 1: that whoever dominates AI the semiconductor manufacturing and critical minerals
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  Speaker 1: could shape the next generation of real global power. Analysts
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  Speaker 1: say this summit may create communication channels to well prevent
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  Speaker 1: real escalation, but nobody believes that the competition itself is
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  Speaker 1: going to go.
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  Speaker 2: Away anytime soon.
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  Speaker 1: One thing, though, that is interesting, is the tone of
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  Speaker 1: the summit has been a surprise to many observers. Comparing
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  Speaker 1: to Trump's first China trip back in twenty seventeen, analysts
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  Speaker 1: say this visit has been notably warmer and more personal.
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  Speaker 1: The ceremonies were elaborate, the conversations reportedly lasted longer than expected.
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  Speaker 1: G and Trump appeared relaxed publicly toward historical sites together
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  Speaker 1: and projected an image of stability between the world's two
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  Speaker 1: largest economies. That is extremely important because the markets, well,
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  Speaker 1: they hate uncertainty all over the world. And politically, Trump
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  Speaker 1: wants Americans to see him as the one leader who
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  Speaker 1: can simultaneously confront China, negotiate with China, and also bring
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  Speaker 1: peace at the same time resolution and that's really the
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  Speaker 1: broader message coming out of this trip, especially from the
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  Speaker 1: White House. This administration is making it clear the Trump's
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  Speaker 1: approach is not weakness, but controlled leverage pressure first, negotiation second,
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  Speaker 1: and results third. Critics, of course, argue China still holds
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  Speaker 1: enormous economic power, and they do, and they do it
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  Speaker 1: especially through their rare earth minerals and manufacturing dominance. Some
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  Speaker 1: are saying that America just has to figure out a
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  Speaker 1: way to do it without China. You can decide what
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  Speaker 1: you want to happen there. But one thing is for sure.
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  Speaker 1: The President wanted this summit to be proof that if
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  Speaker 1: you put pressure on China, well then they may they
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  Speaker 1: actually come to the negotiating table and seriously offer up concessions.
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  Speaker 1: And that's exactly what the president wants. In fact, when
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  Speaker 1: President Trump was asked about the meeting, and exactly how
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  Speaker 1: he felt it was going. Here's what he said to
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  Speaker 1: Sean Hannity.
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  Speaker 6: In your own words, How did this meeting go? Because
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  Speaker 6: I knew you were there a long time.
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  Speaker 2: It was a long meeting.
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  Speaker 7: It started off interestingly because they're very organized people. And
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  Speaker 7: as you know, we have about thirty of the biggest
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  Speaker 7: business leaders in the world, the biggest everything, you know,
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  Speaker 7: I mean you name it, from chips to planes to everything,
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  Speaker 7: and they're all here. I didn't invite them. They all
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  Speaker 7: wanted to come, and they're all here, and I suggested
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  Speaker 7: that I've always go at the meeting. I'd like to
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  Speaker 7: introduce them to you. And they were surprised because it
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  Speaker 7: wasn't you know, it wasn't scheduled. And they looked around.
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  Speaker 7: They said, well, and then you know, we had everybody.
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  Speaker 7: Don't want to go into names because I leave some out,
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  Speaker 7: but there were a lot of guys.
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  Speaker 6: Let them cookie, a lot of peoples. You know, we
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  Speaker 6: had had everybody had the video was Henson.
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  Speaker 7: We had just everybody and men and women, all all
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  Speaker 7: great business are the best. And they said okay, and
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  Speaker 7: they spoke a little bit and introduced themselves. It's interesting
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  Speaker 7: because they do business and Ghener wust of them do
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  Speaker 7: business here, but probably like to do more, and I'd
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  Speaker 7: like to see them do more that would be good
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  Speaker 7: for trade and trade balance.
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  Speaker 1: So, after years of tension with Beijing, the White House
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  Speaker 1: once Americans understand one thing above all else, Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: went to China not to apologize, not to back down,
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  Speaker 1: but to negotiate deals that they argue put the American
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  Speaker 1: worker first. And that's exactly what seems to be coming
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