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ICE Hiring Frenzy w Record Applications and Big Bonuses plus Pentagon Preps Military Options Against Foreign Drug Lords · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Latin Americans has got a lot of cartels, They've got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of drugs flowing. So you know, we want
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  Speaker 1: to protect our country. We have to protect our country.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't been doing it for four years, so you
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  Speaker 1: know we're playing a tough game. But we'll have more
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  Speaker 1: to say about that soon.
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
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  Speaker 3: Good Wednesday morning. Nice to have you with us on
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  Speaker 3: the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got three big
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  Speaker 3: stories for you. First up, more than one hundred thousand
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  Speaker 3: Americans have said we want to work for the President
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  Speaker 3: and be ice agents. That's right. Nationwide, more than one
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  Speaker 3: hundred thousand Americans have applied for just ten thousand jobs.
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  Speaker 3: I'll give you the details on how big of a
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  Speaker 3: deal that is in just a moment plus, in a
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  Speaker 3: major move by the White House, it now looks like
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  Speaker 3: it's time to hold the cartels accountable for what they've
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  Speaker 3: been doing and torturing, killing, and overdosing American citizens. President
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  Speaker 3: has designated them as terrorist organizations. And now how the
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  Speaker 3: President is fighting back in Mexico out of nowhere, decides
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  Speaker 3: to extradit twenty six top cartel leaders to the US
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  Speaker 3: all because of Donald Trump putting America first. How safe
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  Speaker 3: is this going to make America? I'll explain it as well.
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  Speaker 3: And finally, Adam Schiff in big trouble, new accusations coming
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  Speaker 3: out from a Democrat that he purposely leaked classified information
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  Speaker 3: to undermine and overthrow the Trump presidency. Back in two
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  Speaker 3: thousand and seventeen. It's the forty seven Morning Update and
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  Speaker 3: it starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump has done something that's truly incredible, allow law
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  Speaker 3: enforcement to do their jobs, and now Americans are signing
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  Speaker 3: up in record numbers to get in on law and order.
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  Speaker 3: We now have found out that over one hundred thousand
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  Speaker 3: Americans have submitted applications for jobs at the US Immigration
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  Speaker 3: and Customs Enforcement known as ICE, following the launch of
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  Speaker 3: a Department of Homelanned Security hiring campaign in late July.
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  Speaker 3: The Trump administration initiatives seeks to add ten thousand more
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  Speaker 3: ICE personnel. Because of the tens of millions of illegal
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  Speaker 3: immigrants that are in this country, ICE agents are needed,
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  Speaker 3: and now they're offering major perks as well and even
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  Speaker 3: easing some of the qualification restrictions to make sure that
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  Speaker 3: we get incredible people that are willing to work within ICE.
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  Speaker 3: This is one of the best parts of all of
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  Speaker 3: what Donald Trump has done. In a statement, the Department
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  Speaker 3: of Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nomes stress the significance of
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  Speaker 3: the hiring push, saying quote, this is a defining moment
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  Speaker 3: in our nation's history. Your skills, your experience, and your
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  Speaker 3: courage have never been more essential. Together, we must defend
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  Speaker 3: the homeland. No emphasize that ICE agents are responsible for
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  Speaker 3: deporting the worst of the worst criminals from the United
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  Speaker 3: States of America. To draw in applicants, ICE is providing
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  Speaker 3: sign on bonuses as high as fifty thousand dollars, along
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  Speaker 3: with programs for re paying or for giving student loans
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  Speaker 3: and additional perks. This hiring campaign occurs amid DHS statistics
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  Speaker 3: showing an eight hundred and thirty percent surge in attacks
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  Speaker 3: on ICE agents, a number that no medicated has now
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  Speaker 3: climbed to one thousand percent because the radical left demonizing
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  Speaker 3: law and order. The acting ICE Director Todd Lyons has
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  Speaker 3: drawn also attention to the difficulties ICE agents are enduring
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  Speaker 3: and encountering in the public because of the open border
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  Speaker 3: policies of the former Biden Harris government. The dedicated men
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  Speaker 3: and women of ICE now face unprecedented challenges and removing
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  Speaker 3: millions of criminal legal aliens from our country, and that's
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  Speaker 3: exactly why they're trying to hire ten thousand new individuals now.
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  Speaker 3: The ICE hiring portal features various positions such as deportation officer,
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  Speaker 3: criminal investigator, and general attorney, and it also clearly responds
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  Speaker 3: to the occupational hazard. It's noting that agents are quote
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  Speaker 3: expertly trained and that all possible measures are implemented to
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  Speaker 3: protect them. Every candidate for law enforcement position will be
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  Speaker 3: subject to health evaluations, substance screenings, and fitness tests during
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  Speaker 3: the recruitment. This is exactly why they've received more than
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  Speaker 3: one hundred thousand applicants, because so many people are willing
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  Speaker 3: to fight to protect this country when they know the
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  Speaker 3: commander in chief is backing them up. And that's exactly
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  Speaker 3: what you're getting from President Trump. Next story number two,
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  Speaker 3: I want to take you back to February of this
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  Speaker 3: year and something big happen at the White House. The
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  Speaker 3: Trump administration designated several major drug cartels, including the Sinaloa Cartel,
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  Speaker 3: MS thirteen and others as quote global terrorists organizations. Well,
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  Speaker 3: now we know more about why that decision was made.
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump's executive authority has now been used and has
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  Speaker 3: signed a directive empowering the Pentagon to prepare military options
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  Speaker 3: on land and its see against Latin American drug cartels
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  Speaker 3: that have been designated as quote foreign terrorists organizations. Preparedness
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  Speaker 3: and non immediate action is what this is really all about.
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  Speaker 3: Military plans are being drawn up, we're being told now,
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  Speaker 3: including special forces, intelligence operations, naval operations, and surveillance. The
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  Speaker 3: threshold for actual deployment has not been crossed yet. No
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  Speaker 3: ground operations, we've been told, are imminent. But Mexico is
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  Speaker 3: already responding to this. In fact, today Mexico extradited twenty
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  Speaker 3: six top cartel leaders to the US and a Trump
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  Speaker 3: administration deal. The transfer comes ahead of a twenty five
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  Speaker 3: percent tariff on Mexican goods imposed by President Trump. Mexico
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  Speaker 3: handing over these twenty six top cartel leaders in the United
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  Speaker 3: States of America this week is massive. It's something that
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  Speaker 3: Biden never even tried to do or Obama. The cartel
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  Speaker 3: figures were scheduled to fly the US on Tuesday. We
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  Speaker 3: were being told by reporters today is the latest example
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  Speaker 3: of the Trump administration's historic effort to dismantle cartels and
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  Speaker 3: foreign terrorist organizations. That's what Attorney General Pam Bondi said
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  Speaker 3: to Fox News, saying, quote, these twenty six men have
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  Speaker 3: all played a role in bringing violence and drugs to
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  Speaker 3: American chores. Under the Department of Justice, they will face
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  Speaker 3: severe consequences for their crimes against his country, and we're
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  Speaker 3: grateful to the President of Mexico and the Mexican government
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  Speaker 3: for their collaboration in this matter. Now, one of the
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  Speaker 3: twenty six cartel members that was turned over the US
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  Speaker 3: is a man that was wanted. His name was Gonzales Vallecina.
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  Speaker 3: He was a leader of one of the top Mexican
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  Speaker 3: cartels and he also is accused of participating in the
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  Speaker 3: two thousand and eight killing of a Los Angeles sheriff deputy.
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  Speaker 3: He's one of those that is among the twenty six
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  Speaker 3: that are being handed over to the US. The Trump administration,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, has classified that cartel, the CJNG, as
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  Speaker 3: a terrorist organization. Mexico's Attorney General's office and the Security
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  Speaker 3: Ministry confirmed the men were being handed over, saying the
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  Speaker 3: deal was made after the US Justice Department said it
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't seek the death penalty for any of the men.
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  Speaker 3: The deal comes amid the Trump administration's focus on border security,
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  Speaker 3: an attempt to crack down on Mexican cartels that's in
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  Speaker 3: drugs across the border. President Trump's top priority is protecting
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  Speaker 3: the homeland, which is why it took the bold steps
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  Speaker 3: to designate several cartels and gangs as foreign terrorists organizations.
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  Speaker 3: That's what the Deputy White House Press secretary said today
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  Speaker 3: in a statement that was released Mexican president on Friday,
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  Speaker 3: so the US military would not be entering Mexican territory
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  Speaker 3: following reports that Washington could take action to combat the cartels, saying, quote,
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  Speaker 3: we co operate, we collaborate, but there is not going
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  Speaker 3: to be an invasion. It's off the table, absolutely off
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  Speaker 3: the table, quote unquote, Which brings me back to the
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  Speaker 3: White House. I want you to take a listen to
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  Speaker 3: part of what was said about what the present is
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  Speaker 3: planning to do and how serious he is about combating
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  Speaker 3: these terrorists. Here he is, in his own words, You were.
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  Speaker 4: Talking about sending military forces to fight against the drug
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  Speaker 4: cartels in Latin America. Do you think it's worth sending
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  Speaker 4: our forces or US forces there to take this.
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  Speaker 1: On cartels where Central Latin America. Latin America's got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of cartels, They've got a lot of drugs flowing. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we want to protect our country. We have
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  Speaker 1: to protect our country. We haven't been doing it for
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  Speaker 1: four years. And we love this country like they love
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  Speaker 1: their countries. We have to protect our country. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're playing a tough game. But we'll have more to
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  Speaker 1: say about that soon.
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  Speaker 3: We'll have more to say about that soon. Clearly, the
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  Speaker 3: President United States of America not messing around when it
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  Speaker 3: comes to protecting the homeland. And here is number three
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  Speaker 3: in a bombshell report. A Democratic whistleblower has come forward,
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  Speaker 3: a long time staffer on the House Intelligence Committee and
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  Speaker 3: told the FBI back in December of twenty seventeen, during
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump's first year in office, that then Representative Adam
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  Speaker 3: Shift authorized the leaking of classified information during the Russia
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  Speaker 3: Gate investigation to discredit President Donald Trump, believing that he
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  Speaker 3: would be appointed CIA director under a potential Hillary Clinton presidency.
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  Speaker 3: In meetings, Adam Shift allegedly stated the leaks would be
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  Speaker 3: used to indict President Trump. When the whistleblower objected, others
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  Speaker 3: reportedly reassured him that they would not quote be caught.
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  Speaker 3: The whistleblower described a system where sense of material was
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  Speaker 3: funneled to Shift and then selectively leaked to the press.
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  Speaker 3: One document allegedly seen by a small group including Shift
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  Speaker 3: and Representative Eric swallwell you remember the congressman that was
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  Speaker 3: literally sleeping with a Chinese spy, was leaked almost verbatim
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  Speaker 3: within a day. The whistle blower labeled these actions unethical
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  Speaker 3: and potentially treason US and sought FBI involvement, though the
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  Speaker 3: Department of Justice reportedly declined to pursue the investigation further.
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  Speaker 3: The White House Press secretary calling the report a bombshell,
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  Speaker 3: signing the newly released FBI documentation about the whistleblower's account.
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  Speaker 3: Here's more of what Caroline Levitt had to say when
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  Speaker 3: she was asked about it in the White House briefing room.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, thanks Caroline. My question involves Russia Gate. A whistleblower
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  Speaker 4: alleged that Congressman Adam Shift approved leaking classified information to
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  Speaker 4: smear President Trump's image during the Russia guse scandal because
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  Speaker 4: the president planned to investigate Adam shift and what would
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  Speaker 4: accountability look like if more.
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  Speaker 5: Information confirms The President has already said he wants to
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  Speaker 5: see Adam Shiff held accountable for the countless lies he
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  Speaker 5: told the American people in relation to the Russia Gate scandal.
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  Speaker 5: I brought Tulsea Gabbert out to this podium to talk
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  Speaker 5: to you about all of that, and this administration is
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  Speaker 5: taking accountability very seriously. As for this new FBI whistleblower report,
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  Speaker 5: I understand cash Ptel last night declassified a three h
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  Speaker 5: two FBI document showing that a whistle blower who is
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  Speaker 5: a Democrat, a career intelligence officer who worked for Democrats
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  Speaker 5: on the House Intel Committee for more than a decade,
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  Speaker 5: repeatedly warned the FBI in twenty seventeen that then Rep.
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  Speaker 5: Adams Shiff had approved leaking classified information to smear then
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  Speaker 5: President Donald Trump over the Russia Gate scandal. This is
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  Speaker 5: obviously a bombshell whistleblower report. Hopefully more people in this
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  Speaker 5: room will cover it as such. And I have a
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  Speaker 5: quote from the FBI director for all of you. He
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  Speaker 5: has said this for years to certain officials use their
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  Speaker 5: positions to selectively leak classified in information to shape political narratives.
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  Speaker 5: It was all done with one purpose, to weaponize intelligence
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  Speaker 5: and law enforcement for political gain. Those abuses eroded public
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  Speaker 5: trust in our institutions. The FBI will now lead the charge,
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  Speaker 5: with our partners at DOJ and Congress will have the
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  Speaker 5: chance to uncover how political power may have been weaponized
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  Speaker 5: and to restore accountability. That's what the administration is focused on,
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  Speaker 5: and hopefully we'll see some more media reports on this
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  Speaker 5: whistleblower allegation. If this were reversed, If if this were
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  Speaker 5: allegations against the President or any of these cabinet officials,
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure everyone in this room would cover it. As such.
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  Speaker 3: This is obviously a major story that the media doesn't
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  Speaker 3: want to cover, but we're going to keep you informed
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  Speaker 3: on it, and we're going to make sure you know
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  Speaker 3: exactly what's happening every step of the way.
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