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Sanctuary State Illinois Releases 1,800 Criminal Aliens plus Biden Era ‘Political Choices Made Gas Expensive' · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Democrats have chosen to put more lives at risk. Your
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  Speaker 1: life is one of them with the new moves that
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  Speaker 1: they're doing to undermine Donald Trump and the laws in
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  Speaker 1: this nation. The sanctuary state of Illinois has now released
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  Speaker 1: more than one thousand, eight hundred illegal aliens. They've been
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  Speaker 1: charged with crimes such as murder, assault, burglary, robbery, and
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  Speaker 1: sex crimes, including crimes against children, and they've released them
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  Speaker 1: on purpose back in the communities since Donald Trump took
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  Speaker 1: office in late January. The new data is exposing all
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  Speaker 1: of this. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Todd Lyons
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  Speaker 1: released the data on Monday while urging Illinois Attorney General
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  Speaker 1: to honor more than four thousand active ICE detainers that
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  Speaker 1: the agency has lodged against criminal illegal aliens in the
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  Speaker 1: sanctuary state of Illinois. In particular, Lions said, Illinois officials
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  Speaker 1: have already failed to honor more than one thousand, seven
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  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty eight ICE detainers and released the illegal
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  Speaker 1: aliens back into neighborhoods. Among those illegal aliens that have
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  Speaker 1: been released back into America are five charged with murder
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  Speaker 1: who are now walking, among us one hundred and forty
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  Speaker 1: one charged with assault, walking among us, twenty three charge
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  Speaker 1: of burglary, walking among us, ten charged with sex crimes
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  Speaker 1: now walking among us, and four charged with robbery, twenty
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  Speaker 1: four charged with drug crimes, many of them dealing with
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  Speaker 1: fetnol that are killing Americans, and fifteen charged with weapons
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  Speaker 1: offenses as well. Meanwhile, the crimes of more than four
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  Speaker 1: thousand illegal aliens with active ICE detainers in Illinois, including
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  Speaker 1: fifty one charged with murder, one thousand, one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: thirty four charged with assault, one hundred and seven charged
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  Speaker 1: with burglary, thirty six charged with robbery, two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: seventy five charged with drug crimes, and one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: twenty charged with weapons offenses. And this is the one
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  Speaker 1: that is the most shocking, eight hundred and thirteen illegal
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  Speaker 1: aliens charged with sex crimes. Governor Pritzkerb and his fellow
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  Speaker 1: Illinois sanctuary politicians are releasing these murderers, pedophiles, and kidnappers
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  Speaker 1: back into our neighborhoods and putting American lives at risk,
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  Speaker 1: the Department of oland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in
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  Speaker 1: his statement. She then said, we are calling on Governor
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  Speaker 1: Pritskerb and his administration to stop this dangerous arrangement and
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  Speaker 1: commit to honoring the ICE arrest detainers of the more
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  Speaker 1: than four thousand criminal legal aliens in Illinois's custody. It
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  Speaker 1: is common sense criminal legal aliens should not be released
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  Speaker 1: back into our streets to terrorize more innocent Americans. ICE
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  Speaker 1: officials said Illinois has released from custody and failed to
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  Speaker 1: honor detainers for illegal aliens, such as a forty nine
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  Speaker 1: year old Victor Manuel Menendez Garcia of Mexico, who was
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  Speaker 1: convicted of kidnapping for ransom and sentenced to eighteen years
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  Speaker 1: in prison. A new release from ICE detailed other instances
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  Speaker 1: where illegal aliens were released from custody instead of being
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  Speaker 1: turned over to ICE agents. Juan Morales Martinez, an illegal
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  Speaker 1: alien from Guatemala, for example, was arrested after a vehicle
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  Speaker 1: crash near Westfield, Illinois, where he was a passenger. Early
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  Speaker 1: reports the vehicle crash showed not one, but two fatalities.
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  Speaker 2: It was a county board member and his wife.
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  Speaker 1: Police also found an extended magazine and ammunition in the vehicle.
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  Speaker 1: On October the twenty fifth, ICE lodged a detainer on
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  Speaker 1: Morales Martinez. October the twenty seventh, ICE arrested Morales after
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  Speaker 1: his release from the Clark County Jail. The jail did
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  Speaker 1: not cooperate with ICE, but ICE officers suspected his release
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  Speaker 1: and performed an enforcement action outside of the county jail.
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  Speaker 1: He has now been removed from the United States of America,
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  Speaker 1: but he would be among us if it was left
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  Speaker 1: up to the sanctuary state of Illinois. There was another
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  Speaker 1: man by the name of Gonzales Jimenez, an illegal alien
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  Speaker 1: from Mexico. He was arrested and convicted for one count
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  Speaker 1: of driving under the influence and domestic battery and two
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  Speaker 1: counts of criminal sexual assault. Yet again, Illinois chose deliberately
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  Speaker 1: to refuse the ICE detainer for this individual, again a
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  Speaker 1: accused of two counts of criminal sexual assault. On November
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  Speaker 1: the thirteenth, ICE arrested the man as he was released
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  Speaker 1: from jail. Juan Alberto Carl Morin, an legal alien from Mexico,
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  Speaker 1: was arrested and convicted of aggravated criminal sexual abuse of
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  Speaker 1: a victim and a family and sentenced to six years
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  Speaker 1: in Illinois Department of Corrections. ICE detainer for that man
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  Speaker 1: was also not honored. On November ninth, ICE arrested Carl
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  Speaker 1: Marin where he is currently in ICE custody. Yet again
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  Speaker 1: Illinois saying no, We'd rather play politics than keep our
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  Speaker 1: citizens safe from these dangerous criminals. This is just one
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  Speaker 1: example of what Donald Trump and our government is up against,
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  Speaker 1: as time and time again, these radicals in radical cities
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  Speaker 1: and states around the country are constantly refusing to work
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  Speaker 1: with ICE to keep American safe, and yet again the
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  Speaker 1: President is not backing down, sending more resources to Illinois
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  Speaker 1: to find and to put into custody these more than
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  Speaker 1: one thousand, eight hundred legal aliens charged with murder, assault,
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  Speaker 1: sex crimes.
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  Speaker 2: And what has happened?
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  Speaker 1: Illinois chose to put them back into our neighborhoods instead
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  Speaker 1: of hand them over to ICE.
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  Speaker 1: where the radicals are defying Donald Trump and putting Americans
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  Speaker 1: lives at risk, and many Americans are actually losing their lives.
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  Speaker 1: Another sad and shocking story is now coming out of California,
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  Speaker 1: where an illegal alien is accused of drunk driving and
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  Speaker 1: causing a crash that left an eight year old girl
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  Speaker 1: dead in the sanctuary state of California. Last week, Immigration
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  Speaker 1: and Customs enforcement agents lodged a detainer against a twenty
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  Speaker 1: five year old Guatemala man after he allegedly caused a
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  Speaker 1: head on collision on a San Diego highway that resulted in.
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  Speaker 2: The death of the eight year old little girl.
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  Speaker 1: According to local police, Alva Rodriguez was driving a two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and five Toyota to Coma truck when he crossed
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  Speaker 1: lanes and hit a Toyota camery head on. The driver
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  Speaker 1: of the camera, a twenty six year old man from you, Arizona,
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  Speaker 1: suffered major injuries, as did his front passenger, a twenty
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  Speaker 1: eight year old woman. Three children in the back of
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  Speaker 1: the camera, a five year old boy, a four year
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  Speaker 1: old girl, and an eight year old girl were taken
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  Speaker 1: to a nearby children's hospital. The girl did not survive
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  Speaker 1: her injuries and died at that hospital. How many deaths
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  Speaker 1: of children at the hands of criminal legal aliens need
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  Speaker 1: to happen before Governor Knewsom and sanctuary politicians will prioritize
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  Speaker 1: the safety and security of American families. That's what the
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  Speaker 1: Department of Homeland Security said in his statement. ICE officials
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  Speaker 1: said that Rodriguez had a history of drunk driving, including
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  Speaker 1: a twenty twenty arrest for driving under the end influence,
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  Speaker 1: and then another arrest in twenty twenty one for driving
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  Speaker 1: under the influence and a hit and run. This serial
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  Speaker 1: drunk driver should never have been allowed back onto California roads.
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  Speaker 1: We are praying for the family of this child who
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  Speaker 1: will be grieving this holiday season. Secretary Nome is now
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  Speaker 1: calling on Governor Newsom to honor this ICE arrest attainer
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  Speaker 1: for this illegal alien. And yet again you have another
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  Speaker 1: elected official in another sanctuary state that is saying I
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  Speaker 1: will put illegal immigrants ahead of American citizens. And that's
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  Speaker 1: not the only place that's happening. The New York Mayor
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  Speaker 1: Mundani now telling illegal aliens in New York City how
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  Speaker 1: to stand up to ICE agents. The New York City
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  Speaker 1: Democratic Socialists mayor elect now giving lessons telling illegal immigrants
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  Speaker 1: in this area that you must stand up to ICE agents.
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  Speaker 1: The news comes as President Trump's administration has been working
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  Speaker 1: as safeguard American communities from illegal alien crime, and as
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  Speaker 1: federal officials have been arresting the worst of the worst
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  Speaker 1: criminal aliens. In a video posted on Sunday, Mondani talked
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  Speaker 1: about a recent ICE rate in Chinatown, adding when he
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  Speaker 1: officially becomes a mayor, he will protect all New York
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  Speaker 1: residents and that means the illegal immigrants. He said, that
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  Speaker 1: includes the more than three million immigrants who call the
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  Speaker 1: city their home. But we can all stand up to
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  Speaker 1: ICE if you know your rights, he said, and then
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  Speaker 1: he gave points about avoiding ICE agents altogether, saying, quote,
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  Speaker 1: ICE cannot enter into private spaces like your home, school,
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  Speaker 1: or private area of your workplace without a judicial warrant
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  Speaker 1: signed by a judge. He went on to explain that
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  Speaker 1: they had a right to keep their door shut, literally
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  Speaker 1: telling the criminals exactly how to fight back and not
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  Speaker 1: be arrested.
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  Speaker 3: Last weekend ICE attempted to raid Canal Street and detain
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  Speaker 3: our impact. As mayor, I'll protect the rights of every
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  Speaker 3: single New Yorker, and that includes the more than three
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  Speaker 3: million immigrants who call this city in their home. But
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  Speaker 3: we can all stand up to ICE if you.
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  Speaker 4: Know your rights.
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  Speaker 3: If you encounter ICE. These are the things that every
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  Speaker 3: New Yorker should know.
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  Speaker 2: First.
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  Speaker 3: ICE cannot enter into private spaces like your home, school,
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  Speaker 3: or private area of your workplace without a judicial warrant signed.
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  Speaker 4: By a judge that looks like this.
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  Speaker 3: If ICE does not have a judicial warrant signed by
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  Speaker 3: a judge, you have the right to say I do
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  Speaker 3: not consent to enter it, and the right to keep
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  Speaker 3: your door closed. Sometimes ICE will show you paperwork that
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  Speaker 3: looks like this and tell you that they have the
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  Speaker 3: right to arrest you.
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  Speaker 4: That is false.
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  Speaker 3: ICE is legally allowed to lie to you, but you
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  Speaker 3: have the right to remain silent. If you're being detained,
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  Speaker 3: you may always ask am I free to go repeatedly
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  Speaker 3: until they answer. You are legally allowed to film ICE
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  Speaker 3: as long as you do not interfere with an arrest.
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  Speaker 3: It is important to remain calm during any interaction and
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  Speaker 3: ICE for law enforcement, do.
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  Speaker 4: Not impede their investigation.
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  Speaker 3: Resist arrest to the world. One last thing, New York
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  Speaker 3: has had a constitutional right to protest.
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  Speaker 4: When I'm there, we will protect that right.
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  Speaker 3: New York will always welcome them, and I will fight
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  Speaker 3: each and every day to protect, support and celebrate our prossitors.
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  Speaker 1: That is the mayor elect of New York making it
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  Speaker 1: very clear he doesn't work for the citizens of New
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  Speaker 1: York and said he works for the illegal immigrants and
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  Speaker 1: telling them everything he can to help them continue to
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  Speaker 1: break the laws. So yet again we are having a
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  Speaker 1: conversation about more Americans who are being killed.
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  Speaker 2: One thing is for sure.
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  Speaker 1: The President of the United States of America has promised,
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  Speaker 1: no matter what, to go wherever these criminals are to
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  Speaker 1: find them to hunt them down and to bring them
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  Speaker 1: to justice, even if the radicals on the left like
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  Speaker 1: Mundani or Newsom or Prinz kerb are doing everything they
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  Speaker 1: can to stop illegal immigrants from being deported. Affordability it
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  Speaker 1: is going to be the issue of the midterm elections
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  Speaker 1: if there was an election today. It's the issue that
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  Speaker 1: Democrats are saying. They believe they have the best footing
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  Speaker 1: on to go after Donald Trump, saying that it's all
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  Speaker 1: his fault that affordability is not where you want it.
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  Speaker 1: But then you will get prices. And there are massive
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  Speaker 1: successes that have happened that are the complete opposite of
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  Speaker 1: what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were doing. Energy Secretary
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  Speaker 1: Chris Wright, for example, pointing to now what is historic
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  Speaker 1: gas prices compared to Biden and the Secretary of Energy
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  Speaker 1: Chris Wright saying this about where the gas prices are today, And.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I don't think there was there definitely wasn't
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  Speaker 5: a time during the Biden administration when when the gas
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  Speaker 5: went below the price they came in. Of course, they
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  Speaker 5: came in during the pandemic when prices were very low
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  Speaker 5: because people weren't traveling as much. But they basically, you
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  Speaker 5: look at a chart and it's pretty amazing the way
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  Speaker 5: it just stayed up there. It did come down for
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  Speaker 5: the high point of five bucks a gallon, but it
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  Speaker 5: never really came down significantly enough for American car users.
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  Speaker 6: Imagine if Harris had won the election, where would gasoline
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  Speaker 6: prices be today? How would American consumers feel? I guess
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  Speaker 6: you could visit California and get a preview of that,
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  Speaker 6: where gasoline prices are over fifty percent higher than the
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  Speaker 6: national average. Those are political choices. They're not unfortunate facts.
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  Speaker 6: They're political choices to make energy expensive.
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  Speaker 1: Now, political choices deliberately to make gas prices expensive. You
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  Speaker 1: also go back to the chart that he was referring to,
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  Speaker 1: and that chart is one that truly is incredible. When
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  Speaker 1: Joe Biden became president of Member of twenty twenty, gas
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  Speaker 1: prices were about two dollars and twenty cents a gallon.
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  Speaker 1: By June of that of twenty twenty two, the Biden
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  Speaker 1: administration had gotten gas prices up to five dollars and
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  Speaker 1: three cents a gallon average. They then tried to artificially
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  Speaker 1: deflate that price by even releasing all reserves. Why because
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  Speaker 1: they wanted to win reelection. And in November of twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, we were at three dollars and seventeen cents
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  Speaker 1: a gallon national average, meaning fifty percent. We're paying more
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  Speaker 1: than that, and in many places much more so. Now
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  Speaker 1: where are we the President of United States of America saying,
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  Speaker 1: I understand affordability, and I understand there are many Americans
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  Speaker 1: that are concerned about it. And here's part of what
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  Speaker 1: he had to say at the White House.
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  Speaker 7: We're now at about two dollars and fifty cents a gallon.
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  Speaker 7: We're going to be I think at two dollars a gallon.
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  Speaker 7: We could even crack that at some point. I'd love
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  Speaker 7: to do it, and we could do it more easily
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  Speaker 7: if we weren't building up the rategic national reserves, which
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  Speaker 7: Biden emptied out before the election so that he could
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  Speaker 7: try and get elected, meaning she he started it, then
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  Speaker 7: he got thrown out of the race.
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  Speaker 4: Then she took over, and she kept.
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  Speaker 7: It going, and they emptied out these strategic national reserves,
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  Speaker 7: which are really meant for something else. They're not meant
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  Speaker 7: to keep people happy with the gasoline price. They're meant
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  Speaker 7: for war. They're meant for problems, big problems. He emptied
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  Speaker 7: it out and then she continued it during the process
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  Speaker 7: of trying to get elected. Didn't work out too well
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  Speaker 7: for him, and they virtually brought it down to the
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  Speaker 7: lowest level I believe in history, and it didn't have
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  Speaker 7: much of an impact because the prices were very high.
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  Speaker 7: But our price is now for energy put for gasoline
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  Speaker 7: or really low electricities coming down.
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  Speaker 4: And when that comes down, everything comes down.
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  Speaker 1: When that comes down, everything comes down. Now the president
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  Speaker 1: saying that just a few days ago, and now what
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  Speaker 1: we're seeing is we're winning. The US average gas price
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  Speaker 1: has dropped again, now under three dollars a gallon. The
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  Speaker 1: average price for a gallon of unleaded gasoline the United
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  Speaker 1: States dipped again this week, now standing at under three
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  Speaker 1: dollars a gallon, according to gas Buddy the December eighth update,
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  Speaker 1: gas prices fell five cents over the last week, reaching
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  Speaker 1: two ninety a gallon, and the national average is down
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  Speaker 1: seventeen point six cents from a month ago, seven point
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  Speaker 1: three cents per gallon lower than a year ago. And
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  Speaker 1: the national average price of diesel has also fallen five
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  Speaker 1: point one cents in the last week, standing at three
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  Speaker 1: dollars and sixty seven cents per gallon average. Now, this
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  Speaker 1: is also incredible because Americans are now paying less for
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  Speaker 1: a lot of different things. Because of the price of
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  Speaker 1: a gallon of gas going down, You, depending on where
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: you're listening right now, can look at signs that will
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  Speaker 1: make you not be stressed like they were under the
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  Speaker 1: Biden administration when it was again five dollars a gallon.
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  Speaker 1: Triple A also reflect the reality of an average under
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  Speaker 1: three dollars. According to its data, the national gas price average,
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  Speaker 1: they say, stands at two ninety five and for greater perspective,
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  Speaker 1: one week ago, the average stood at three oh one.
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  Speaker 1: One month ago, it stood at three oh seven. States
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  Speaker 1: across the south in the Midwest are also seeing prices
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  Speaker 1: even lower. In Oklahoma, for example, the average gas price
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  Speaker 1: rings in at two dollars and thirty six cents a gallon.
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  Speaker 1: Texas is average now sits below two fifty a gallon,
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  Speaker 1: Missouri at two sixty a gallon. In other states including Florida, Alabama, Michigan, Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Montana, and others are seeing
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  Speaker 1: averages now under three dollars a gallon, which they did
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  Speaker 1: not see under the Biden regime. Now, some of the
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  Speaker 1: highest prices, and this goes back to what was said
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  Speaker 1: earlier by the Energy Secretary, are in leftist states. California,
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  Speaker 1: for instance, is seeing an average of four dollars and
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  Speaker 1: forty six cents per gallon. That is a dollar fifty
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  Speaker 1: seven a gallon higher than the national average. Others such
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  Speaker 1: as New York, Washington, Hawaiian, Nevada average above three dollars
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  Speaker 1: per gallon as well. Still, this is dramatically lower than
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  Speaker 1: the all time summer high Americans experience in twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: That summer gas price is sword reaching an all time
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  Speaker 1: high of five dollars and sixteen cents average for a
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  Speaker 1: gallon of regular unleaded on June the fourteenth, right in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of summer travel of twenty twenty two days later,
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  Speaker 1: and even a more shocking moment, the diesel prices, which
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  Speaker 1: are eighteen wheelers use, reach an average high of five
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  Speaker 1: dollars and eighty one cents a gallon, the White House
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  Speaker 1: putting it out in a tweet this way, in thirty
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  Speaker 1: seven states, the average price for gas is blowed three
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  Speaker 1: dollars a gallon. In twenty two states, it's blowed two
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  Speaker 1: seventy five gallon in five states, it's below two fifty
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  Speaker 1: a gallon, and all states are now trending lower now.
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  Speaker 1: All of this follows an update last week announced that
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  Speaker 1: gas prices had fallen below the three dollar gallon for
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  Speaker 1: the first time in four years. Last month, President Trump
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  Speaker 1: celebrated the strides's administration has made since last year's election,
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  Speaker 1: making living more affordable for the American people, with gas prices, groceries,
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  Speaker 1: and rental prices actually falling. So when you hear the
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  Speaker 1: media and Democrats saying that we have a quote affordability crisis,
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  Speaker 1: I agree, it costs too much for a lot of things.
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  Speaker 1: But are the prices heading in the right direction? The
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  Speaker 1: answer is yes, they are going in the right direction.
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  Speaker 1: They are not going in the wrong direction. They are
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  Speaker 1: headed exactly where Donald Trump said they were going to
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  Speaker 1: be headed. And that is part of why so many
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Americans should take a moment pause and look and see
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  Speaker 1: what the President is actually doing to get all this
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  Speaker 1: moving the way it needs to. Quick break Ben Ferguson Show,
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  Speaker 1: there is one group of people that I want to
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  Speaker 1: make sure we hit pause and think and talk about,
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  Speaker 1: and that is our forgotten farmers in this country. President
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  Speaker 1: Trump understands that the farming industry, especially in the US,
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  Speaker 1: has been under siege and undercut by so much foreign influence.
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  Speaker 1: And the President understands, also from a national security and
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  Speaker 1: a food security standpoint, that we need to be allies
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  Speaker 1: and advocates of our men and women and family farms
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  Speaker 1: in this country. Secretary Rawlings recently on Fox and Friends
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  Speaker 1: said this about the farmers in our nation.
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  Speaker 6: Farmers said, if who have credit problems and are wondering
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  Speaker 6: they maybe have too many soybeans in stockpiled money coming,
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  Speaker 6: You're going to give them the figure a little bit later,
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  Speaker 6: even though they prefer to sell.
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  Speaker 2: This is one way to keep them.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, they don't want to farm for government checks, right,
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  Speaker 8: They want to farm for real, for real pay for
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  Speaker 8: what they do. But soybeans are looking better. I think
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  Speaker 8: it's the highest price it's been in fifteen months. We've
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  Speaker 8: got some other road crops that we're working on, but yes,
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  Speaker 8: soon to be announced, likely the week after Thanksgiving. And
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  Speaker 8: we're just so grateful for our farmers and our ranchers,
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  Speaker 8: and prices are coming down. I think from the affordability perspective,
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  Speaker 8: we once we sow for these inputs. You're going to
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  Speaker 8: see some incredible, incredible numbers in.
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  Speaker 1: Our Agriculture Secretary rawlings there making it clear that we're
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  Speaker 1: not going to forget which moves made a Part two.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump has now proposed a twelve billion dollar aid
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  Speaker 1: package for farmers that have been hit hard by China's
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  Speaker 1: trade or the President at the White House describing it
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  Speaker 1: this way, delighted.
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  Speaker 7: To announce this afternoon that the United States will be
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  Speaker 7: taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of
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  Speaker 7: dollars we in tariffs.
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  Speaker 4: We are making.
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  Speaker 7: A lot of money from countries that took advantage of
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  Speaker 7: us for years. They took advantage of us like nobody's
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  Speaker 7: ever seen. Our deficits are way down because of tariffs.
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  Speaker 7: I guess because of the election, because without the election,
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  Speaker 7: you wouldn't have tariffs. You'd be sitting here losing your shirt.
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  Speaker 7: But we're taking in billions. We're really taking in trillions
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  Speaker 7: of dollars if you think about it, Scott, because they're
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  Speaker 7: real numbers, you know, when you think of all the
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  Speaker 7: money being poured into the country for.
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  Speaker 4: New auto plants and all of the other things. AI.
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  Speaker 9: So what we're doing is we're taking a relatively small
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  Speaker 9: portion of that and we're going to be giving and
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  Speaker 9: providing it to the farmers in economic assistance.
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  Speaker 7: And we love our farmers, and as you know, the
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  Speaker 7: farmers like me because based on voting trends, you could
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  Speaker 7: call it voting trends or anything else, but they're great people.
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  Speaker 4: They're the backbone of our country.
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  Speaker 7: So we're going to use that money to provide twelve
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  Speaker 7: billion dollars in economic assistance to American farmer's.
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  Speaker 4: Twelve billion is a lot of money. Mertal what do
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  Speaker 4: you think peanuts for you?
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  Speaker 9: Though?
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  Speaker 4: Right she's a farmer of rice.
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  Speaker 7: This release will, this relief will provide much needed certainty
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  Speaker 7: to farmers as they get this year's harvest to market
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  Speaker 7: and look ahead to next year's crops, and it'll help
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  Speaker 7: them continue their efforts to lower food prices.
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  Speaker 1: You hear the present there, and this goes back to affordability.
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  Speaker 1: He understands that American farmers have been hit, and they've
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: been hit hard by China and the trade wars, and
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  Speaker 1: that's why he's taking the tear iff money. And that's
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  Speaker 1: why I announced a twelve billion dollar farm made package.
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  Speaker 1: It will be a boost to farmers who have struggled
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  Speaker 1: to sell the crops while getting hit by rising costs
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  Speaker 1: after the President raised tariffs on China as part of
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  Speaker 1: that broader trade war. And that's why the President build
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  Speaker 1: the and Monday afternoon at the White House a round
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: table with the Treasury Secretary of Scott descent, the Agricultural
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  Speaker 1: Secretary Brook Rawlings, lawmakers and farmers who raise cattle and
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  Speaker 1: grow corn, cotton, soybeans, rice, wheat, potatoes, etc. Twelve billions
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  Speaker 1: a lot of money, Trump said, adding that the additional
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: aid will help provide certainty for farmers. The money is
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: coming from the tariff revenue, again, not directly from you,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: the taxpayer, which is another great thing. Rawlings said, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, in her own remarks to the White House
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  Speaker 1: that eleven billion is being announced on Monday, while another
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: one billion is being held back for specialty crops. Farmers
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: have backed Trump politically, but his aggressive trade policies and
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: shifts and tariff rates have come under increasing scrutiny because
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: of the impact of the agricultural sector and because of
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: broader consumer worries. The AID is the administration's latest effort
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: to defend Trump's economic stewardship and answered voter anks about
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  Speaker 1: rising costs, even as the president's dismiss concerns about the
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: concept of affordability as a straight up democratic hoax because
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  Speaker 1: prices are in fact coming down now. Upwards of eleven
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: billion is set aside for the Department of Agriculture's Farmers
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  Speaker 1: Bridge Assistance Program, which the White House says will offer
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: one time payments to farmers for row crops. That is
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: a huge help to so many farmers. Soybeans and sorghum
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  Speaker 1: will hit the hardest by the trade dispute with China
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  Speaker 1: because more than half of those crops are exported each year,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: with most of the harvest going to China. The eight
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: is meant to help those farmers who have suffered from
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: trade wars with other nations, inflation, and other market disruptions.
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  Speaker 1: The rest of money will be for farmers who grow
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: crops not covered under the Bridge Assistant's program. That according
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  Speaker 1: to White House officials, who said it's important that we
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  Speaker 1: protect all of our farmers. The money is intended, they say,
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  Speaker 1: to offer certain to farmers as they sell their current
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: harvests as well as planned for next year's crops. In October,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: after Trump met with Leader j in South Korea. The
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: White House said Beijing had promised to buy at least
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: twelve million metric tons of US soybeans by the end
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  Speaker 1: of the calendar year, plus twenty five million metric tons
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  Speaker 1: a year in each of the next three years. Soybean
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: farmers have been hit especially hard by Trump's trade war
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  Speaker 1: with China, which is the world's largest buyer of soybean. China,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: just so you know, has purchased more than two point
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  Speaker 1: eight million metric tons of soybeans since Trump announced the
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: agreement at the end of October. That's only about one
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: quarter of what administration officials said China had promised, But
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Scott Descent, Treasury Secretary, said China is on track to
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: meet its goal by the end of February, saying, quote,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: these prices haven't come in because the Chinese actually used
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: our soybean farmers as pawns in their trade negotiations, what
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: he said on Sundays Face the Nation on CBS. That
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: also explains why a bridge payment to farmers is needed now.
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  Speaker 1: The size of the twelve billion dollar aid package is
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: roughly the value of total US soybean exports to China
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four. And half of the total exports
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  Speaker 1: of US farm goods to China in twenty twenty four
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  Speaker 1: as well. Farmers they're beyond thrilled about the aid package,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: but some of them say it's likely only a down
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  Speaker 1: payment on what's needed, and government aid doesn't solve the
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: fundamental problems that farmers are facing of soaring costs and
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: uncertain markets for their crops altogether.
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  Speaker 7: Now.
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  Speaker 1: During Trump's first term, he gave farmers more than twenty
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: two billion in aid payments in twenty nineteen at the
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: start of his trade war with China, and nearly forty
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: six billion in twenty twenty, although that year also included
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: a that was related to the COVID pandemic as well.
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  Speaker 1: The farmers want to make a profit off of selling
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  Speaker 1: their crops rely on government aid to survive, saying quote,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: that's a start, but I think we need to be
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: looking for some avenues to find other funding opportunities, and
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  Speaker 1: we need to get our market going.
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  Speaker 2: That's where you want to be able to make a
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  Speaker 2: living from.
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  Speaker 1: Is where a Kentucky farmer who serves the president of
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  Speaker 1: the American Soybean Association had to say at a conference,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: if farmers can't make ends meet this year, there will
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: likely be additional consolidation the industry, with giant industrial farmers
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: only getting bigger while the number of smaller family farmers
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: continue to shrink. The farmers most at risk are younger
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: farmers and those who rent instead of own most of
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: the ground they farm, because they don't have much ability
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: to borrow against the equity in their land. Most established
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: farmers will be able to borrow more to survive the
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: trade war, but older farmers who spend their whole lives
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: building up equity may decide to retire instead of risk
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: everything that they built up, unless they are trying to
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  Speaker 1: help the next generation of farmers get established on their land,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: which brings us back to what President Trump said, it's
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: clearly a broken system. We've got to fix it, and
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: we also have to make farmers understand that we're on
• 30:12
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• 30:17
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