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Trump_s image of dead _white farmers_ came from Congo_ not South Africa(M4A_128K) · NO FILTER

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  Speaker 1: On to new fallout now from Donald Trump's contentious Oval
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  Speaker 1: Office meeting with South Africa's president earlier this week. During
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  Speaker 1: that meeting, President Trump held up some printouts of news
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  Speaker 1: articles and images that he claimed were evidence of a
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  Speaker 1: genocide against white South Africans, well as Reuter's reports. One
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  Speaker 1: of the images is actually from Reuter's video of a
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  Speaker 1: mass burial in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It does
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  Speaker 1: not depict that white farmers in South Africa, as mister
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  Speaker 1: Trump and the White House claimed in front of the
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  Speaker 1: South African President and in front of journalists in the
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  Speaker 1: White House for more. Now, let's go to Cina. Ance
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  Speaker 1: Larry Medoo joining us from Narobi in Kenya. This Congo confusion, Larry,
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  Speaker 1: how are people where you are reacting to it?
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  Speaker 2: It is shocking to a lot of people because, as
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  Speaker 2: I said after that meeting, based on my own reporting
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  Speaker 2: in this region and especially from fifteen years in South Africa,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of what President Trump used to justify this
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  Speaker 2: persecution and murders of white farmers was just untrue. And
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  Speaker 2: this is another evidence. When I saw him hold up
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  Speaker 2: that picture, I thought it looked familiar. We now know
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  Speaker 2: and Routers is confirming that this picture of body bags
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  Speaker 2: is not from South Africa. It's actually from the Democratic
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  Speaker 2: Republic of Congo. It's from a mess burial from a
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  Speaker 2: mass burial in Goma and the Democratic Republic of Congo
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  Speaker 2: on February third, and the Routers video journalist Jaffar al Catanti,
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  Speaker 2: who took that video, was surprised to see the President
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  Speaker 2: hold up that picture. It's a screen grab that links
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  Speaker 2: to a Routers video from that day. It follows a
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  Speaker 2: big assault on that Goma city in the eastern DRC
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  Speaker 2: by rebels named the M twenty three and that was
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  Speaker 2: the effect. A lot of people were killed on that
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  Speaker 2: day the days before, and this was a mess burial
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  Speaker 2: that was carried out by the International Committee of the
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  Speaker 2: Red Cross. And Routers what the only news organizations that
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  Speaker 2: were allowed in to film that. So this picture does
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  Speaker 2: not picked the deaths of white farmers in South Africa,
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  Speaker 2: as President Trump led President Opposa to believe. And the
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  Speaker 2: wider question the point that President Trump was trying to
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  Speaker 2: make here is that lots of farmers in South Africa
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  Speaker 2: are getting killed or getting executed, even though he'd used
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  Speaker 2: evidence that does not support that. That picture was from
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  Speaker 2: an American conservative online magazine that had talked about both Goma,
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  Speaker 2: the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Africa, and the
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  Speaker 2: South Afkan Foreign minister was on Amanpur last night and
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  Speaker 2: he brought some statistics with him.
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  Speaker 3: In the last four years, two hundred and twenty five
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  Speaker 3: farm attucks, one hundred and one farm dwellers who are
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  Speaker 3: majority Black, fifty five farm owners who are majority white.
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  Speaker 3: So that is a period of four years, and that
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  Speaker 3: does not represent a genocyte, but it is still unfortunate.
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  Speaker 3: It should happen because any crime, it is the crime.
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  Speaker 3: And that's why the President then stated that we're dealing
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  Speaker 3: with the crime situation.
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  Speaker 2: And that is the argument that South Africans were trying
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  Speaker 2: to make the Oval office. They have a crime problem,
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  Speaker 2: not a murder of farmers. In fact, farm matters. Lastly,
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  Speaker 2: when we looked at it, zero point two percent of
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  Speaker 2: the overal total POLO, a small percentage.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we've been here before, Donald Trump and his press
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  Speaker 1: folks using material out of context, so we can now
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  Speaker 1: add South Africa to the list. Larry Madewell, thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much for your reporting.
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  Speaker 4: More in that contentious meeting between South African President Ramaposa
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  Speaker 4: and President Trump from yesterday afternoon, You'll remember, the White
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  Speaker 4: House played a video purporting to back up claims that
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  Speaker 4: afric connors in South Africa are victims of genocide. Mister
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  Speaker 4: Trump showed a video of crosses lining the side of
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  Speaker 4: a road, claiming it was a burial site of murdered
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  Speaker 4: white farmers. It wasn't. Today, White House Press Secretary Carolyn
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  Speaker 4: Levitt was pressed about it. Pressed about the video by
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  Speaker 4: NBC reporter Yamisha El Sendor, the.
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  Speaker 5: President showed a video that he said it showed more
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  Speaker 5: than a thousand burial sites of white South Africans.
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  Speaker 1: He said, we're murdered.
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  Speaker 5: We know that that was not true and that the
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  Speaker 5: video wasn't doing that. So I wonder why did the
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  Speaker 5: President choose to show that It's not true the video
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  Speaker 5: was showing a burial site. It is unsubstantiated that that's
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  Speaker 5: the case. No, it's it is.
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  Speaker 6: True that that video showed the crosses. That represents what
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  Speaker 6: the President claimed. The video showed images of crosses in
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  Speaker 6: South Africa about white farmers who have been killed and
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  Speaker 6: politically persecuted because of the color of their skin, and
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  Speaker 6: those crosses aren't representing their lives. Those crosses are representing
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  Speaker 6: their lives and the fact that they are now dead
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  Speaker 6: and their government did nothing about it. Are you disputing
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  Speaker 6: that there's.
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  Speaker 5: No fact that the video showed what the President claimed
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  Speaker 5: it showed because it did not show that. But even more,
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  Speaker 5: what I'm asking is who.
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  Speaker 6: Did show that the white cross is representing people who
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  Speaker 6: have perished because of racial persecution?
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  Speaker 5: The videos that the president shows, and what protocols are
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  Speaker 5: in when there's unsubstantiated information being put out for the
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  Speaker 5: world and more leadership.
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  Speaker 6: Give me what's unsubstantiated about the video? The video shows
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  Speaker 6: crosses that represent the dead bodies of people who were
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  Speaker 6: racially persecuted by their government. In fact, the Associated Press,
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  Speaker 6: of all places, has a picture of that very monument.
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  Speaker 6: In the caption from the Associated Press is each cross
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  Speaker 6: marks a white farmer who has been killed in a
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  Speaker 6: farm murder. So it is substantiated. It's not just by
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  Speaker 6: that video and the physical evidence that everybody saw on
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  Speaker 6: display in the Oval office, but also by another outlet
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  Speaker 6: in this from the Associated Press. So you should take
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  Speaker 6: it up with them if you believe the claim is unsubstantiated.
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  Speaker 6: And that's a ridiculous line of questioning.
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  Speaker 4: Well, give it them, honest, it's not what President Trump
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  Speaker 4: said yesterday. Let's listen to what he actually said.
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  Speaker 7: These are burial sites right here, burial sites over a
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  Speaker 7: thousand of white farmers, and those cars are lined up
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  Speaker 7: pay love on a Sunday morning. Each one of those
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  Speaker 7: white things you see is across and there's approximately a
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  Speaker 7: thousand of them. They're all white farmers, the family of
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  Speaker 7: white farmers, and those guys aren't driving to stop there
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  Speaker 7: to pay respects to their family member who's killed. And
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  Speaker 7: it's a terrible sight. I've never seen anything like it.
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  Speaker 7: Those people are all killed.
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  Speaker 2: Have they told you where that is, mister president.
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  Speaker 3: No, I'd like to know where that is, because this
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  Speaker 3: I've never seen.
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  Speaker 7: But okay, I mean it's in South Africa.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the South African president there at the end asking
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  Speaker 4: where the burial site is because he'd never seen it.
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  Speaker 4: It's because it does not exist. It's not a burial ground.
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  Speaker 4: It's video from five years ago, a visual created after
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  Speaker 4: a white farming couple was robbed and murdered. That was
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  Speaker 4: a tragedy, as is any murder, and the people actually
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  Speaker 4: who killed them were can of it. It was not ignored.
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  Speaker 4: The killing shook the African or community, and a neighbor
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  Speaker 4: of the couple erected the crosses to honor them and
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  Speaker 4: other farmers who had been killed across South Africa. It's
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  Speaker 4: not a burial site, he told the BBC today. The
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  Speaker 4: person who made this memorial, it was a memorial. It
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  Speaker 4: was not a permanent memorial that was erected. It was
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  Speaker 4: a temporary memorial. Now, in addition to the claim of
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  Speaker 4: a burial ground, there was an article that President Trump
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  Speaker 4: held up as further proof of genocide of white farmers
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  Speaker 4: in South Africa.
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  Speaker 7: These are all white farmers that.
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  Speaker 2: Are being buried.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we tracked down the source of the image in
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  Speaker 4: that article and it's actually not from South Africa. It
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  Speaker 4: is a screen grab of Reuter's video from Goma in
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  Speaker 4: the Democratic Republic of Congo and was from February when
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  Speaker 4: over two thousand people were killed in clashes between the
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  Speaker 4: government and a rebel group. Now, the sick irony is
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  Speaker 4: that none of the black people fleeing violence or persecution Indorce,
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  Speaker 4: Congo or anywhere else in Africa would be allowed into
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  Speaker 4: the United States. Right now, I was refugees only white Afrikaners,
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  Speaker 4: based on claims of a genocide which is not actually occurring,