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Watters GRILLS El-Sayed on far-left policies during HEATED interview · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: Alex Hogan, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: And staying with the midterms, far-left Michigan Senate candidate Abdul
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  Speaker 2: El-Sayed appearing on Jesse Waters' primetime, facing questions over his
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  Speaker 2: radical policies.
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  Speaker 1: Watch. You want to abolish ICE?
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  Speaker 2: Who's going to deport the criminal aliens from the country?
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  Speaker 1: Long before we ever had ICE, we had INS.
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  Speaker 3: We were able to enforce our immigration policies without shooting
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  Speaker 3: people in the face and the back of the head.
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  Speaker 1: You say you want socialized healthcare. Abdul, how much is
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  Speaker 1: that going to cost?
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  Speaker 3: It's going to cost the average Michigander a whole lot
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  Speaker 3: less than they pay right now.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm just going to tell you... No, but what's
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  Speaker 1: the price tag of the program? I'm up against a
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  Speaker 1: guy who.
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  Speaker 3: Voted to raise prescription drug prices 19 times.
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  Speaker 1: Should men play women's sports? You have daughters, right?
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  Speaker 3: At the end of the day, the decision of who
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  Speaker 3: gets to play what sports ought to be decided by
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  Speaker 3: the people who govern sports.
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  Speaker 1: I'm running for U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Senate.
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  Speaker 1: Jesse, it's insane.
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  Speaker 3: I'm out here trying to take on, like, the health
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  Speaker 3: care crisis and big pharma, and you're asking me about
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  Speaker 3: who gets to play what sports.
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  Speaker 2: Senior advisor at the American Principles Project and former Federal
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  Speaker 2: Trade Commission staffer John Schweppe joins me now. John, your
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  Speaker 2: reaction to the interview.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think what you saw there was Jesse Waters
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  Speaker 4: holding him accountable for his views. And what you're seeing
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  Speaker 4: from Abdul, this is a fake populist. This is somebody
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  Speaker 4: who wants to tell you, dude, bro, no, dude, bro,
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  Speaker 4: I just want to talk about health care.
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  Speaker 1: But the reality is he is extreme. He's woke.
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  Speaker 4: And he wants to impose that college campus orthodoxy on
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  Speaker 4: all of America. And I just don't think it's going
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  Speaker 4: to fly in Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: But he did go into some specifics.
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  Speaker 2: As you heard in that answer, he's making much of
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  Speaker 2: his campaign about health care. Last week on this show,
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  Speaker 2: we reported that Donald Trump's internal White House polling is
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  Speaker 2: showing that health care could be the deciding factor for
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  Speaker 2: Republicans going into the midterm. So did El-Sayed win over
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  Speaker 2: any what I would call moderate voters, any on-the-fence voters
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  Speaker 2: with that answer?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think that's certainly on Republicans to counter that.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And to talk about our own health care messaging and
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  Speaker 4: what we're going to do to lower prices. But I
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  Speaker 4: will tell you, you know, when he's thinking about health
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  Speaker 4: care and we saw this last night in the interview,
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  Speaker 4: he's thinking about, you know, gender affirming care for minors.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: He's thinking about abortion. He's thinking about these radical things
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  Speaker 4: where I think most working Michigan folks are thinking about
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  Speaker 4: getting their prices down.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're 100 percent right about that.
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  Speaker 2: I think the solutions that he is putting out there
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  Speaker 2: are not ones that you and I would espouse or
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  Speaker 2: would want. But I would argue that at least he's
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  Speaker 2: putting out solutions. And when Republicans go out there and
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  Speaker 2: say we need to lower prices, they never say the how.
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  Speaker 1: This guy is saying the how, even though we would
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  Speaker 1: disagree with that.
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  Speaker 2: Your overall thoughts on that strategy?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think there's some truth to that.
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  Speaker 4: And certainly you want Republicans engaging in this debate. And
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  Speaker 4: you're seeing that, by the way. President Trump, his CMS
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  Speaker 4: just came out trying to fix the No Surprises Act,
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  Speaker 4: which raised health care prices. And so I think, you know,
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  Speaker 4: obviously Republicans have a health care plan. But ultimately, I
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  Speaker 4: don't think Abdul really knows what he's talking about when
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  Speaker 4: it comes to health care. As Jesse, you know, noted yesterday,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he didn't even know how much universal health
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  Speaker 4: care would actually cost the country.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, the specifics in that regard, you're right,
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  Speaker 2: are lacking. I'm just— if I'm a.
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  Speaker 1: Voter in Michigan and I hear.
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  Speaker 2: That— and again, if I'm on the fence, if I really
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  Speaker 2: haven't taken a position, I might hear that and say, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: my costs are too high.
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  Speaker 1: This guy gives a solution.
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  Speaker 2: And they're not, you know, breaking it down like you
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  Speaker 2: and I are, really going through the nitty-gritty and realizing
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  Speaker 2: this is a horrible plan for most of America or for,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the survival of our country. But it's a
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  Speaker 2: plan nonetheless. And my concern for the Republicans is we're
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  Speaker 2: running out of time here. You've got to come up
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  Speaker 2: with a solution. Before we let you go, I want
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  Speaker 2: to get your thoughts on this. El-Sayed suggested that Vice
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  Speaker 2: President J.D. Vance's grandfather would have rejected Second Lady Usha
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  Speaker 2: Vance because of her heritage. Here is what Usha had
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  Speaker 2: to say in response.
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  Speaker 5: I have to admit, I kind of laughed because, yes,
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  Speaker 5: I never met JD's mama and papa, but I do
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  Speaker 5: know and love the children that they raised, you know,
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  Speaker 5: his mom, his aunt and uncle, and they have never
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  Speaker 5: been anything but incredibly loving. I mean, his aunt is
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  Speaker 5: like a second mother to me. I have to think
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  Speaker 5: that if they raise children like that, they would have
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  Speaker 5: been loving as well. And I would have really, really,
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  Speaker 5: really loved to have met them.
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  Speaker 2: What you just heard from the second lady is all
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  Speaker 2: about Midwest nice.
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  Speaker 1: You heard it right there.
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  Speaker 2: That's not what El-Sayed is selling, John. In the end,
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  Speaker 2: what are Michigan voters buying?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I think, you know, they're going to attack
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  Speaker 4: the vice president and his family because they pose a
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  Speaker 4: threat to what they.
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  Speaker 1: Want to accomplish.
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  Speaker 4: Democrats want to divide us into groups, into race, into
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  Speaker 4: sexual orientation. They want us to hate each other. And
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  Speaker 4: I think ultimately seeing J.D. 's family, you know, is
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  Speaker 4: an affront to that. And so it's a threat.
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  Speaker 2: The full interview with Second Lady Usha Vance will air
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  Speaker 2: exclusively on Fox & Friends tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: John Schweppe, thanks for your insight. Appreciate it, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for having me.