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Swalwell Whispers, Rumors and the Long Liberal Silence · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: The question every American should be asking right now is
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Speaker 1: what do the Democrats know, when do they know it?
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Speaker 1: And for how long have they been covering up the
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Speaker 1: abuse at the hands of Congressman Eric Swalwell.
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Speaker 2: Now, multiple women at least four have now.
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Speaker 1: Come forward accusing Swalwell of sexual misconduct, including allegations of
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Speaker 1: sexual assault, non consensual contact, sending explicit messages and images,
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Speaker 1: and in the most serious case, an allegation of rape
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Speaker 1: involving a former staffer. One accusation involves an alleged encounter
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four that prosecutors are now reviewing. Swalwell
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Speaker 1: has denied the most serious allegations, calling them false as
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Speaker 1: he's resigned from Congress, but acknowledges mistakes and judgment as
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Speaker 1: he described it, and said his resignation was meant to
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Speaker 1: avoid becoming a distraction. Now, the other part of this
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Speaker 1: story that's really important to understand is why all of
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Speaker 1: this and the investigations are now becoming the center point
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Speaker 1: of Eric Swalwell's demise.
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Speaker 2: This was done by design.
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Speaker 1: Democrats knew for quite some time about what was going
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Speaker 1: on behind closed doors with Eric Swalwell, and they did
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Speaker 1: everything they could to protect him and make sure that
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Speaker 1: none of what they're now reporting on saw the light
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Speaker 1: of day. The only thing that changed was Eric Swalwell
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Speaker 1: was going to ruin. They believe their chances in the
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Speaker 1: Governor's Mansion could cost them the Governor's mansion in California,
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Speaker 1: and that is why they decided to get rid of him. Now,
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Speaker 1: I want to take a quick moment and talk to
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Speaker 1: compassion dot com. Which brings us to all of the
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Speaker 1: known investigations. This is what has been confirmed so far.
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Speaker 1: Number One, there was a House Ethics Committee investigation investigating
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Speaker 1: the alleged sexual misconduct, including towards a staff member, that
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Speaker 1: could have led to discipline or expulsion if he stayed
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Speaker 1: in Congress, which is part of the reason why he
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Speaker 1: decided to resign. Now, to be clear, the same Democrats
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Speaker 1: that are saying we got to kick him out where
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Speaker 1: the same ones protecting him when apparently he was sleeping
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Speaker 1: with a Chinese spy. Which brings us to number two.
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Speaker 1: The Manhattan District Attorney criminal probe that is now investigating
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Speaker 1: at least one allegation of sexual assault, and it focuses
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Speaker 1: on a reported twenty twenty four incident in New York City.
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Speaker 1: The question becomes obvious again, what did the Democrats know
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Speaker 1: and when did they know it? Number Three, an additional
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Speaker 1: local prosecutor review in California. Yes, Liberal California. The LA
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Speaker 1: Times has said that authorities they are reviewing whether criminal
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Speaker 1: conduct occurred in their jurisdiction. We go back to the
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Speaker 1: same question, what did the Democrats know, when do they
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Speaker 1: know it? And how long have they been covering it up?
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Speaker 1: And then there's the fourth investigation that we know about.
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Speaker 1: It involves the Department of Homeland Security looking into claims
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Speaker 1: involving in Nanny allegedly working without proper authorization. Now at
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Speaker 1: least three separate investigative tracts are happening. That would be congressional, criminal,
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Speaker 1: and federal. They're all active at the same time. Now,
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Speaker 1: these aren't the only controversies that have erupted over the
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Speaker 1: last week. There's now the new nanny controversy that is
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Speaker 1: separate from the misconduct allegations. It's another controversy that is
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Speaker 1: absolutely exploded because Democrats are willing to destroy Eric Swawell
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Speaker 1: to protect the governor's mansion in California from going to
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Speaker 1: a Republican. They knew about this for quite some time.
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Speaker 1: The allegations are this that he continued to employ her
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Speaker 1: after her visa status lapsed, paying her in properly or
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Speaker 1: even under the table, and using campaign funds to cover
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Speaker 1: childcare expenses for his own family.
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Speaker 2: Now Here are the.
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Speaker 1: Key distinctions that you need to understand. All of these
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Speaker 1: claims are under investigation. They originated from a formal complaint,
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Speaker 1: but that complaint was filed by a figure described in
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Speaker 1: reporting as a conspiracy theorist, which raises credibility questions. I
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Speaker 1: wish I was joking, I'm literally not, but the Democrats said,
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Speaker 1: let's do it anyway. Federal agencies, including DHS, are reviewing
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Speaker 1: the allegations. No findings of wrongdoing have been announced yet,
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Speaker 1: but the damage had already been done. And that was
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Speaker 1: the whole plan of the Democratic Party, which brings us
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Speaker 1: back to the big question I mentioned at the beginning,
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Speaker 1: What did the Democrats know and when? And that is
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Speaker 1: where the facts mattered the most. What is confirmed is
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Speaker 1: this Democratic leaders quickly called for accountability only after they
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Speaker 1: saw the poll numbers showing that Eric Swalwell could be
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Speaker 1: a spoiler. It is absolutely wild how the Democratic Party
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Speaker 1: literally covered up for Eric Swalwell for decades because it
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Speaker 1: suited their political purposes. In this new wave of sexual
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Speaker 1: assault accusations against Squawell, only hit on Friday. In the
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Speaker 1: time since, a number in the media and the political
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Speaker 1: sphere have claimed that they knew all along that the
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Speaker 1: California congressman was at best a pest and worse involved
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Speaker 1: in behavior that might be criminal, but they never went
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Speaker 1: public with that information for decades as they enabled him,
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Speaker 1: made him bigger, more powerful, and even covered for him
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Speaker 1: when it was exposed that he was sleeping with a
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Speaker 1: Chinese spy named Fang Feng. Local reporter, for example, Stephen Tavares,
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Speaker 1: author of The East Bay Insider, said that he had
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Speaker 1: been covering Swalwell for more than a decade, beginning when
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Speaker 1: he was just a member of the Dublin City Council,
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Speaker 1: and that he and others had been well aware of
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Speaker 1: Swalwell's well excitement that he liked in his life for years.
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Speaker 2: Quote.
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Speaker 1: I've covered Eric Swalwell since he was a member of
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Speaker 1: the city council shortly after being elected to Congress in
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Speaker 1: twenty thirteen.
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Speaker 2: His behavior towards women was.
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Speaker 1: Known by all levels of our local government and the
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Speaker 1: Alameda County Democratic Party, is what the reporter posted on x,
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Speaker 1: adding don't get it twist to Nobody has been more
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Speaker 1: critical of Swawell. Over the years, I tried repeatedly to
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Speaker 1: get those stories out. I can't force women to speak out,
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Speaker 1: and when they choose not to, I didn't publish. I
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Speaker 1: also knew that Swalwell was known for threatening litigation. But
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Speaker 1: as critics are pointing out, and I'm one of them,
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Speaker 1: knowing information like that and not reporting it could put
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Speaker 1: young women on his staff and around him at risk.
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Speaker 1: Radio hosts data Lash summed it up this way, saying, quote,
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Speaker 1: and at no time did you think, gee, maybe I
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Speaker 1: should report about this. She's absolutely right. You're giving yourself
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Speaker 1: a lot of undeserved credit with the words covered when
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Speaker 1: you knew this information for at least thirteen years before
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Speaker 1: Swalwell was in Congress and never reported it. Is what
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Speaker 1: another conservative commentator said about the local man that claimed,
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Speaker 1: I've been covering him for years and I wanted to
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Speaker 1: report it, but I just couldn't. And it wasn't just
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Speaker 1: by the way local journalists who said they had known
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Speaker 1: for a long time that they had dirt on Swalwell.
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Speaker 1: Swalwell's situation was shall we say quote, widely rumored, and
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Speaker 1: it's interesting that the gossip doesn't seem to have made
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Speaker 1: its way all the way to the big shots out west,
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Speaker 1: is what a Bloomberg columnist wrote this morning. Progressive activists
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Speaker 1: and commentators also are among those claiming to have known
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Speaker 1: years earlier that Swalwell's behavior was problematic, one of them
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Speaker 1: saying this okay, just to show out in saying this
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Speaker 1: is I was aggressively hit on two separate times by
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Speaker 1: Eric Swalwell, one after a DNC meeting at the hotel
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Speaker 1: in front of a ton of notable folks, and one
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Speaker 1: in my DMS. I don't think he remembered me from
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Speaker 1: the first time when he hit on me or hit
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Speaker 1: me up in DMS, is what the liberal influencer posts
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Speaker 1: on Saturday. I showed disinterests and like many others, heard stories,
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Speaker 1: which makes me wonder why House leadership, who most certainly
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Speaker 1: knew continue to protect a member without looking into it,
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Speaker 1: the liberal commentator continued, And how pathological of him to
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Speaker 1: pressure and allegedly essay subordinates and think he was protected
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Speaker 1: question mark. I hope the New York AG's Office investigates
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Speaker 1: thoroughly and it sends a message to other people in
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Speaker 1: power who sexually abuse and harassed to stop and get
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Speaker 1: out of politics and for other survivors to know they
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Speaker 1: have a voice and power. Now, this goes back to
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Speaker 1: the core question, how many years or even decades did
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Speaker 1: Democrats know what he was doing and they did everything
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Speaker 1: in their power to make it disappear. That is the
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Speaker 1: question that everyone needs to be asking right now. Well
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Speaker 1: is done, but not because he did anything wrong, but
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Speaker 1: because the Democratic Party was worried they could lose the
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Speaker 1: governor's mansion in California. That is the only reason why
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Speaker 1: any of this is coming out right now. And so
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Speaker 1: if you think the Democrats are doing the right thing,
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Speaker 1: you're wrong. Thank goodness, they've gotten rid of him, whether
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Speaker 1: it was for the right or wrong reason, at least
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Speaker 1: now he's been exposed for exactly who he is. We're
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Speaker 1: learning new and shocking details from a press conference held
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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles involving new accusations against former Congressman Eric Swalwell,
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Speaker 1: and the allegations are growing, both in number and also severity.
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Speaker 1: And the question that we continue to need to be
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Speaker 1: asking is this, what did the Democratic leadership know and
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Speaker 1: when do they know it? And how long have they
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Speaker 1: been helping cover it up. One of the women accusing
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Speaker 1: Swawell of sexual misconduct set in a press conference that
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Speaker 1: she believes the congressman drugged her and raped and choked
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Speaker 1: her to the point she lost consciousness and thought that
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Speaker 1: she died. Holding this press conference alongside her attorney in
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Speaker 1: Beverly Hills, Lona Drus detailed her allegations against a Democratic congressman.
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Speaker 1: She said she was working as a model in Beverly
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Speaker 1: Hills in twenty eighteen and owned a fashion software company.
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Speaker 1: She said she met Swalwell socially and he offered connections
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Speaker 1: to further her company. I want you to listen to
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Speaker 1: what she had to say in part at the press conference.
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Speaker 3: Now in California, Beverly Hills.
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Speaker 4: Let's watch in twenty eighteen, while I was living and
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Speaker 4: working as a model in Beverly Hills, and I also
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Speaker 4: owned a fashion software company, I had contact with Eric
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Speaker 4: Swowell on the three separate occasions. After meeting him socially.
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Speaker 4: He offered me connections to further my software company, and
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Speaker 4: I also had an interest in local politics. He invited
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Speaker 4: me to two public events. I knew he was married
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Speaker 4: at the time and that his wife was pregnant. He
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Speaker 4: was my friend. On the third occasion, I believe he
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Speaker 4: drugged my drink. I only had one glass of wine.
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Speaker 4: We were supposed to go to a political event, and
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Speaker 4: he said he needed to get paperwork from his hotel room.
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Speaker 4: When I arrived at his hotel room, I was already
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Speaker 4: incapacitated and I couldn't move my arms from my body.
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Speaker 4: He raped me, and he choked me, and while he
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Speaker 4: was choking me, I lost consciousness and I thought I died.
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Speaker 4: I did not consent to any sexual activity. Although I
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Speaker 4: did not undergo a rape kit at the time, I
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Speaker 4: disclosed the assault to the people closest to me. I
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Speaker 4: also recorded these events in my handwritten calendar the assault
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Speaker 4: and It's impact, or later documented during my therapy sessions
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Speaker 4: at a sexual assault center.
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Speaker 1: This is truly heartbreaking and shocking. As she described it there,
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Speaker 1: I believe you drugged my drink. I only had one
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Speaker 1: glass of wine. You listen to her words, and you
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Speaker 1: hear the fear also in her voice to come forward.
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Speaker 1: I did not consent, she said, to any sexual activity.
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Speaker 1: He was married at the time and his wife was pregnant.
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Speaker 1: He said he needed to get paperwork from his hotel room,
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Speaker 1: and when I arrived to his hotel room, I was
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Speaker 1: already incapacitated. I couldn't move my arms or my body.
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Speaker 5: Now.
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Speaker 1: Her legal team says they are preparing to take this
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Speaker 1: case directly to law enforcement as they should, and plan
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Speaker 1: to submit what they describe as evidence, including text messages,
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Speaker 1: personal journal entries, and potential witness information. At that same
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Speaker 1: press conference, her attorneys also revealed something else that could
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Speaker 1: significantly escalate the situation. They say additional women have now
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Speaker 1: come forward behind the scenes, potentially expanding the scope of
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Speaker 1: these allegations even further. Now, this latest accusation does not
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Speaker 1: stand alone. It comes on top of multiple prior claims,
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Speaker 1: including allegations from a former staffer and several other women,
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Speaker 1: ranging from inappropriate messages to accusations of sexual assault. The
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Speaker 1: political fallout has been swift and dramatic. Swalwell has already
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Speaker 1: announced his resignation from Congress, stepping down as pressure mounted
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Speaker 1: and investigations intensified, And for his part, Swalell is.
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Speaker 2: Denying these allegations.
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Speaker 1: Through his legal team, He says he categorically and unequivocally
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Speaker 1: denies any sexual misconduct and claims the accusations are false.
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Speaker 1: But the reality is this what began is a single
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Speaker 1: allegation is now turned into a growing scandal, multiple accusers,
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Speaker 1: a public press conference in LA and what appears to
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Speaker 1: be a widening legal and political crisis, and as more
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Speaker 1: women are reportedly considering coming forward, this story for Eric
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Speaker 1: Swalwell is far from over, which brings us back to
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Speaker 1: the point I said earlier, and I also said the
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Speaker 1: day before and the day before, there is no way
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Speaker 1: that the Democratic Party's leadership did not know that this
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Speaker 1: was a problem. There is no way, there is no
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Speaker 1: way that the leadership didn't see the warning signs coming
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Speaker 1: from many other people, and the Democratic Party protected Eric Swalwell.
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Speaker 1: What they didn't do is protect the women that he
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Speaker 1: was apparently abusing. Representative Anna Paulina Luna, she went on
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Speaker 1: CNN earlier today and said this about the investigation, and I.
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Speaker 5: Look forward to assisting the FBI with information that I
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Speaker 5: have regarding the investigation into former Representative Swalwell.
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Speaker 6: Can you expand on that Hunsman.
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Speaker 5: Look, there's been a lot of reports you've heard about
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Speaker 5: people knowing information on the Hill, but there was some
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Speaker 5: information brought to my office. Specifically, I did obtain forensics
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Speaker 5: on that now infamous video in the hotel room I
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Speaker 5: am hearing that there is an investigative report coming out
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Speaker 5: that he used his campaign funds to pay for that.
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Speaker 5: There's also been allegations that potentially the person that filmed
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Speaker 5: that video was potentially a minor. All of these things
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Speaker 5: obviously coming to my office, but I am going to
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Speaker 5: be handing over to the FBI because they are, to
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Speaker 5: my understanding now asking mister Swaball to come in and
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Speaker 5: talk to them.
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Speaker 1: Now. You can hear from the congress woman there that
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Speaker 1: things are moving at a very fast pace. And while
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Speaker 1: all this is happening, you had the House clerk on
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Speaker 1: the floor of the House of Representatives reading this simple
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Speaker 1: note that involves Eric Swalwell.
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Speaker 7: House of Representatives. Sir, I am deeply sorry to my
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Speaker 7: family's staff and constituents for mistakes and judgment I've made
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Speaker 7: in my past. I will fight the serious false allegations
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Speaker 7: made against me. However, I must take responsibility and ownership
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Speaker 7: for the mistakes I did make. I am aware of
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Speaker 7: efforts to bring an immediate expulsion vote against me and
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Speaker 7: other members. Expelling anyone in Congress without due process within
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Speaker 7: days of an allegation being made is wrong, but it's
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Speaker 7: also wrong for my constituents to have me distracted from
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Speaker 7: my duties. Therefore, I plan to resign my seat in Congress,
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Speaker 7: effective at two pm Eastern time on April fourteenth, twenty
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Speaker 7: twenty six. I will work with my staff in the
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Speaker 7: coming days to ensure they are able in my absence
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Speaker 7: to serve the needs of the good people of the
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Speaker 7: fourteenth Congressional District. Signed sincerely, Eric Swalwell.
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Speaker 1: Under that making it official as the letter was read
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Speaker 1: on the floor of the House. Now to be clear,
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Speaker 1: that is the least of his problems resigning from the House,
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Speaker 1: the least of his worries. Good riddance to this individual.
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Speaker 1: And I go back to the question and why we
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Speaker 1: will continue to cover this. There are two scandals here,
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Speaker 1: one involving directly Eric Swalwell and these potential number of
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Speaker 1: victims that we still don't know the total number of.
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Speaker 2: And then there's the second scandal.
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Speaker 1: What did the Democratic leadership know and what did they
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Speaker 1: help him cover up so he can continue to do
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Speaker 1: these horrific crimes he's being accused of by the woman
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Speaker 1: today holding that press conference.
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Speaker 2: So there has been.
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Speaker 1: A total reset in the governor's race in California after
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Speaker 1: the Democrats got rid of Eric Swalwell. Now you've got
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Speaker 1: a guy who's a billionaire that is trying to buy
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Speaker 1: the election. I want to remind you who this guy is,
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Speaker 1: Tom Steyer. He's a billionaire and he wants you to
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Speaker 1: believe that everyone like him, just of course you admit
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Speaker 1: him from the equation is evil and bad and that's
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Speaker 1: a limousine liberal. He's rich, he's got a driver, he's
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Speaker 1: got security, he's loaded. But if you listen to what
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Speaker 1: he says on his own Facebook page, he says, I
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Speaker 1: want you to know what it's all about. He says,
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Speaker 1: it's about lowering costs for Californians. Now, how would you
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Speaker 1: do that when he's in favor of single payer health care?
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Speaker 2: What is that?
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Speaker 1: That's full blown socialized medicine. It is a disaster everywhere
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Speaker 1: in the world where it's offered, and it costs a
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Speaker 1: crap ton of money.
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Speaker 2: That's just one example. But this guy will literally.
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Speaker 1: Say anything to get elected so that he can then
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Speaker 1: grab your tax dollars and then become a socialist with
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Speaker 1: he's in favor of before we get into politics of
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Speaker 1: what has happened the last twenty four hours.
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Speaker 4: Five.
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Speaker 1: need to pay their fair share. By the way, he's
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Speaker 1: literally one of them. And oh, by the way, I'm
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Speaker 1: of actually getting traction with the voters, what is he
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Speaker 1: going to do?
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 8: Like?
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Speaker 6: What?
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Speaker 1: Like, He's going to try to buy the election. That's
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Speaker 1: what he's been doing, spending record amounts of money. Now,
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Speaker 1: if you don't think this guy's a full radical, this
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Speaker 1: is what you need to know. He has come out
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Speaker 1: and it's been clear now that he wants to abolish ICE,
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Speaker 1: and then not just abolish them, he wants to imprison
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Speaker 1: the agents in California. This breaking from Fox News Channel
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Speaker 1: about how radical he really is.
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Speaker 8: Okay, so he's releasing an immigration plan that would empower
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Speaker 8: the state to prosecute ICE. He explains, quote how California
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Speaker 8: can put Ice in jail selling that for Democrats to
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Speaker 8: simply engage in rhetoric and stand for against Ice or Trump,
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Speaker 8: California must build a system that fights.
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Speaker 2: Fire with fire.
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Speaker 8: Okay, Martha McCallum here hosts the story three o'clock Eastern Time,
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Speaker 8: Born to You.
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Speaker 2: It's got a five point plan. All right, here we go.
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Speaker 9: When an outlaw agencies from profiling immigration arrests, authorize holding
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Speaker 9: Ice leadership accountabile, prosecute the agents a point fund special
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Speaker 9: investigative unit to enforced laws.
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Speaker 10: Bring those detained and kidnap by Ice back home. I'll repeat,
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Speaker 10: bring those detained and kidnapped by Ice back home, which
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Speaker 10: I think means if you've been deported, you get the
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Speaker 10: right to come back to California and launch a statewide
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Speaker 10: know your Rights campaign.
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Speaker 2: Ironically, leave it to the Fresno Bee.
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Speaker 9: Tom Steyer once managed a ninety million dollars stake and
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Speaker 9: affirm now running a California ice facility.
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Speaker 2: He's quoted by saying it was a mistake.
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Speaker 11: Well, it's interesting and light of what's happening in California
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Speaker 11: governor's race and the shake up that we're seeing because
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Speaker 11: Swalwell is now out, so Democrats are looking for their
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Speaker 11: next big candidate who can move into that spot. You've
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Speaker 11: got two Republicans who are at the top of the
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Speaker 11: list right now. It's a jungle primary that happens in
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Speaker 11: the spring, so you know, you could end up with
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Speaker 11: no Democrats in that mix. And a lot of people
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Speaker 11: think that the sort of off with the head that
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Speaker 11: we saw with Eric Swalwell was orchestrated for this moment
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Speaker 11: so that they could move in their second best candidate.
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Speaker 11: I'm not sure Tom Steyer is that person. He hasn't
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Speaker 11: been that person for them in the past.
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Speaker 1: Now you may ask yourself this question, like why do
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Speaker 1: the Democrats get rid of in the past. Let me
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Speaker 1: just answer that because it's terrible candidate. He doesn't relate
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Speaker 1: to people. He's bad candidate. He reminds me of Mitt Romney.
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Speaker 1: Mitt Romney we knew was going to lose in a
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Speaker 1: general election. Democrats desperately, okay desperately wanted him to win
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Speaker 1: the primary. They did everything to get him across to
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Speaker 1: finish line against Rix and Toorum. He bought the election
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Speaker 1: in Ohio primary there to kind of secure things against
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Speaker 1: against Rix and toorum and then he got his brains
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Speaker 1: beatn in the general election. I this to me, Tom Sawry, Sorry,
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Speaker 1: it reminds me of the same exact situation or scenario,
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Speaker 1: however you want to describe it. And the only reason
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Speaker 1: why anybody in California knows who he is right now
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Speaker 1: is because he has bought the attention. He has straight
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Speaker 1: up purchased it with his billions of dollars, and he
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Speaker 1: says the evil other people have not paid their fair share. Again,
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Speaker 1: you cannot make up the hypocrisy here at all.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: Steve Hilton is a guy that's former Fox News guy.
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Speaker 1: You may recognize his voice. I'm gonna play this for
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Speaker 1: him in just a moment, and I want you to
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Speaker 1: hear what he had to say about the race changing
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Speaker 1: quickly because they have this, They have this general primary
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Speaker 1: there where there's a very good chance that a Republican
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Speaker 1: could actually win in this primary. That is the reason
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Speaker 1: why they got rid of the scumbag congressman who was
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Speaker 1: sleeping with Feng Feng Bang bang, the Chinese spy, and
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Speaker 1: Eric Swalwell.
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Speaker 2: So take a listen to this.
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Speaker 1: From what was said about Tom and Steve Hilton, I
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Speaker 1: think summed up perfectly talking to Harris Faulkner on the
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Speaker 1: Faulkner Focus.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so you mentioning President Trump's endorsement and a jump
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Speaker 3: in numbers, And I don't know which pole you're looking at,
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Speaker 3: but that would make sense that there would be.
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Speaker 2: Some increase too.
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Speaker 3: We don't even know the fallout yet from Eric Swalwell
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Speaker 3: leaving who was the top vote getter in these polls,
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Speaker 3: not vote getter, but in the position on the left
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Speaker 3: side of the aisle. You mentioned Tom Steyer, a top
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Speaker 3: Democrat in California's governor's race who's rolled out an immigration
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Speaker 3: plan on substack. So if you're looking for it, that's
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Speaker 3: where you'll find it. And it's raising a lot of
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Speaker 3: eyebrows on the right. The proposed is called how California
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Speaker 3: can put Ice in Jail, and he writes it's not
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Speaker 3: enough for Democrats to simply engage in rhetoric and stand
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Speaker 3: against Ice or Trump. California must build a system that
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Speaker 3: fights fire with fire. Here's the five point plan on substack,
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Speaker 3: a ban on profiling immigration arrests, allowing prosecution of ICE agents,
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Speaker 3: funding a special investigative unit to enforce these laws, bringing
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Speaker 3: back those he says were detained or kidnapped by ice
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Speaker 3: and launching a statewide know your Rights campaign. Look, this
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Speaker 3: guy spent over a million two hundred or one hundred
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Speaker 3: and twenty million against you right now, three hundred million
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Speaker 3: running for president previously.
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Speaker 2: Much of it is own money. No one wants Tom Style.
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Speaker 12: That's why he's trying to buy the election, because he's
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Speaker 12: got no real support. And you can see why when
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Speaker 12: he comes out with insanity like this. This is far
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Speaker 12: left extremism beyond anything we even saw under the Biden years.
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Speaker 12: This is basically an extension of the Iden open borders
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Speaker 12: policy agenda on at the home front. Internally, it's insanity.
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Speaker 12: It's completely dismantling any kind of immigration enforcement effectively. By
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Speaker 12: the way, that's a federal matter, not even the responsibility
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Speaker 12: of the governor of California. I've made clear that when
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Speaker 12: I'm governor, I will be there working in a constructive
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Speaker 12: and collaborative way with federal immigration enforcement in order to
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Speaker 12: ensure what any responsible elected officials should ensure, which is
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Speaker 12: that our laws are peacefully enforced. That is a job
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Speaker 12: of the next governor of California.
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Speaker 2: Tom Steyle.
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Speaker 12: With this insane far left open borders plan has shown
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Speaker 12: that he's just not qualified, not fit for that office.
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Speaker 1: So as you work at this race, all right, and
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Speaker 1: Sarah concluded by writing, are my wives, California will protect
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Speaker 1: the most vulnerable. That's a lie, and bring to justice
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Speaker 1: those who break the law meaning law enforcement, and brutalize
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Speaker 1: our neighbors, meaning we're going to weaponize our government against
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Speaker 1: law enforcement. Well, let Ice know in California, you obey
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Speaker 1: our laws and respect our residents, or you go to jail.
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Speaker 2: So he wants to lock them up.
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Speaker 1: Sorry to find his announcement after the Tesla founder Elon
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Speaker 1: Musk took the X to write and is astonishing wow
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Speaker 1: over the radical progressive suggestion, saying Wow, is right, Ice
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Speaker 1: is a criminal organization. As governor, I will prosecute them
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Speaker 1: them like one the extremest democrat went on to post,
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Speaker 1: all right, So there it is. If you have a badge,
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Speaker 1: your public enemy number one and radical lefties that are
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Speaker 1: out there, this is your guy. This is who you picked.
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