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Elon Giving SpaceX Shares to EVERY Child in America, Dems Promising to Target & Persecute Young People, and Dems Embracing Paris Riots · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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  Speaker 1: Welcome, it is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson
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  Speaker 1: with you. Senator, we're less than two weeks away from
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  Speaker 1: Election Day and Elon Musk and Donald Trump really gave
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  Speaker 1: us some great news. First the Trump accounts and now
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  Speaker 1: Elon Musk announcing something amazing for every kid in America that,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, you predicted would happen if we had
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  Speaker 1: the automation of accounts being open for children and now
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  Speaker 1: we have proof that it works.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we had an extraordinary announcement that came out this week.
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  Speaker 2: Elon Musk announced that he's going to give a share
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  Speaker 2: of SpaceX to every single child in America. That's more
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  Speaker 2: than 70 million kids. That's more than an $ 11 billion gift.
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  Speaker 2: One share to every Trump account of every kid in America.
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  Speaker 2: As you know, I wrote the legislation that created the
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  Speaker 2: Trump accounts, and one of the purposes of it was
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  Speaker 2: to become a vehicle to make every kid in America
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  Speaker 2: a capitalist, to make them an owner and a stakeholder
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  Speaker 2: in the biggest companies in America. My hope was that
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  Speaker 2: Elon would do exactly what he just announced he's going
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  Speaker 2: to do. I've urged Elon to do exactly this. These
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  Speaker 2: Trump accounts were designed to receive these stocks, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: here to predict right now, Trump accounts are going to
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  Speaker 2: be the vehicle for the most philanthropic gifts, the most
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  Speaker 2: gifts to charity in the history of America. They're already
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  Speaker 2: on the path to being there, and that is going
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  Speaker 2: to change the future of our kids. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: break that down. We're also going to talk about an
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  Speaker 2: incredible threat, a shocking threat that Michigan Democrat Senator Lisa
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  Speaker 2: Slotkin issued that she was going to target young people
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  Speaker 2: who go to work for the Trump administration, persecute them.
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  Speaker 2: She wanted to make it so no young person would
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  Speaker 2: be willing to go work for the administration. It was
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  Speaker 2: an incredible abuse of power. It was a promise of
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  Speaker 2: more weaponization. And it's a sign of just how radicalized
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats have been. And finally, we're going to talk
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  Speaker 2: about the Paris riots and the fact that you've got
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  Speaker 2: Democrats embracing the Paris riots and effectively promising to expect
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  Speaker 2: more of that here in America. Again, it underscores today's
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  Speaker 2: Democrats have been taken over by Marxists and Islamists. and
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  Speaker 2: they are more than happy to resort to political intimidation
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  Speaker 2: and the violence to try to force their radical agenda
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  Speaker 2: on the american people all of that we're covering in
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  Speaker 2: today's podcast Yeah, it.
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  Speaker 3: Really is incredible.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Senator.
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  Speaker 1: So let's let's go back and remind people the Trump
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  Speaker 1: accounts were truly incredible. You wrote that legislation, but you
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  Speaker 1: had a very big fight. I think it's important that
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  Speaker 1: we remind people of this with the admin or I
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  Speaker 1: say the I.R.S., to open these accounts automatically for kids
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  Speaker 1: so that children would not miss out on philanthropists like
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  Speaker 1: Elon Musk if they decided to give shares of stocks
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  Speaker 1: to children.
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  Speaker 3: It was a hard fight.
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  Speaker 1: Now we know just how much it was worth fighting
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  Speaker 1: that fight because what you described has become a reality.
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  Speaker 2: Well, auto enroll was a year-long battle, actually more than
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  Speaker 2: a year, when I drafted the legislation to create Trump Accounts.
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  Speaker 2: The career lawyers at the Treasury Department fought me tooth
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  Speaker 2: and nail, and in particular, they did not want to
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  Speaker 2: auto-enroll kids. They did not want to automatically create personal
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  Speaker 2: investment accounts for all 70-plus million kids in America. And
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  Speaker 2: we went round and round. I wrote the legislation to
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  Speaker 2: create auto-enroll, and there's several reasons for it. One... If
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  Speaker 2: you have an opt-out instead of an opt-in, if you
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  Speaker 2: automatically enroll people and just as the default, you get
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  Speaker 2: a much, much higher take-up rate. That is really important.
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  Speaker 2: That's important for newborn children. There are about 3.7 million
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  Speaker 2: newborn children a year in America. Under the Trump account
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  Speaker 2: legislation that I wrote, every one of them gets $ 1, 000
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  Speaker 2: seeded in that account. Well, if you don't auto-enroll it,
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  Speaker 2: Those kids don't get the $ 1, 000 invested in the stock market.
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  Speaker 2: They don't get the compound growth. And we want that
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  Speaker 2: to start at birth. We want to maximize the time
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  Speaker 2: that it can compound so that they can save and
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  Speaker 2: invest and have the miracle of compound growth. But not
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  Speaker 2: only that, this legislation was specifically drafted so that it
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  Speaker 2: can receive charitable contributions. We saw that start. incredibly with
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  Speaker 2: Michael and Susan Dell giving $ 6. 25 billion. What Michael and
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  Speaker 2: Susan gave is $ 250 to every child in America under
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  Speaker 2: the age of 10 who lives in a zip code
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  Speaker 2: where the median income is $ 150, 000 or less. That works
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  Speaker 2: out to about 25 million kids, which they gave the
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  Speaker 2: gifts to. Now, before auto-enroll, there were roughly 7 million
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  Speaker 2: Trump accounts that had been opened. That means about 10%
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  Speaker 2: of the kids who were eligible for Trump accounts, had
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  Speaker 2: affirmatively opened them. And I will say it skews in
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  Speaker 2: the wrong way, because the kids who were most likely
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  Speaker 2: to affirmatively open them are wealthier kids or kids whose
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  Speaker 2: parents are more financially sophisticated. That is missing the students
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  Speaker 2: that we most intended to benefit, which are low-income kids,
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  Speaker 2: the kids of a single mom waiting tables, who we
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  Speaker 2: wanted to create an avenue for those kids to be
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  Speaker 2: able to accumulate wealth and compounding growth and investment and
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  Speaker 2: to become capitalists, to have skin in the game. And
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  Speaker 2: so auto-enroll is important for that, but even more importantly,
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  Speaker 2: let's take Michael and Susan Dell's gift. They're giving $ 250
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  Speaker 2: to 25 million kids.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know what?
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  Speaker 2: If they're not 25 million Trump accounts, there's no place
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  Speaker 2: for that money to go. You've got to open the
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  Speaker 2: accounts and for the charitable gift to land. And so
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  Speaker 2: just a couple of weeks ago, finally, the Treasury Department
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  Speaker 2: agreed and did auto-enroll every kid in America. That was
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  Speaker 2: a year-long fight. I had been battling with Treasury over
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  Speaker 2: and over again. Ultimately, President Trump directed the Treasury Department
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  Speaker 2: in unequivocal terms, auto-enroll the kids. That's what the legislation says.
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  Speaker 2: Follow the legislation. That was an incredibly important decision. As
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  Speaker 2: you know, I was in the Oval Office with the president,
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  Speaker 2: with Secretary Scott Besset, who's been terrific, on the announcement
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  Speaker 2: of auto-enrollment. It also meant that now there were the
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  Speaker 2: $ 25 million. There are actually more than 70 million accounts.
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  Speaker 2: So those 25 million kids who are getting the gift
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  Speaker 2: from Michael and Susan Dell have an account to receive
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  Speaker 2: the $ 250. But not only that, I had another battle
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  Speaker 2: with Treasury. Because I pressed Treasury very hard that these
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  Speaker 2: Trump accounts should not only be able to accept cash,
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  Speaker 2: which is what they're getting from Michael and Susan Dell,
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  Speaker 2: they should also be able to accept the specific gift
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  Speaker 2: of an individual stock, a stock that would reside in
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  Speaker 2: the Trump account. And that incentivizes a lot more people
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  Speaker 2: to give away, to give charity into these accounts. And
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  Speaker 2: to be honest, when I was fighting for that, I
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  Speaker 2: envisioned what happened this week. I envisioned Elon giving a
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  Speaker 2: share of SpaceX to everyone. Now, when Treasury issued the opinion,
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  Speaker 2: and again, I had to battle with the Treasury career
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  Speaker 2: lawyers who did not want to do this, but the
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  Speaker 2: President directed Treasury to do so, and Treasury did. Almost immediately,
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  Speaker 2: Gwen Shotwell, who is the President and Chief Operating Officer
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  Speaker 2: of SpaceX, announced a donation of 2 million shares of SpaceX.
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  Speaker 2: That is about a $ 300 to a $ 350 million. million-dollar
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  Speaker 2: charitable gift. That's a huge charitable gift. Well, that was
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  Speaker 2: hugely important, and Gwen started it. We now have Elon
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  Speaker 2: saying he'll give a share of SpaceX to each of
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  Speaker 2: the more than 70 million kids in this country. That
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  Speaker 2: is more than $ 11 billion. That is a big, big deal,
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  Speaker 2: and it means every kid suddenly has a stake in
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  Speaker 2: seeing the success of SpaceX. SpaceX is is deploying launch
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  Speaker 2: and is going to the moon and is going to
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  Speaker 2: Mars and deploying satellites and innovating, every kid suddenly is
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  Speaker 2: now rooting for that success. And when SpaceX succeeds, they succeed.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm here right now to predict. We have Michael
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  Speaker 2: and Susan Dell with $ 6.
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  Speaker 3: 25 billion.
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  Speaker 2: We have Gwen Shotwell with $ 350 million. We have Elon
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  Speaker 2: Musk with $ 11 billion. We have also Ray Dalio, who's adopted...
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  Speaker 2: every kid in the state of Connecticut. We have Brad Gerstner,
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  Speaker 2: who's adopted kids in the state of Indiana. This is
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  Speaker 2: going to be, and they're going to be, I think,
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  Speaker 2: both anthropic and open AI are going to give shares
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  Speaker 2: to kids so that kids will have a stake in
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  Speaker 2: major AI companies. I also think we're going to see
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  Speaker 2: shares of Google donated to kids. All of this gives
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  Speaker 2: our children a stake in the future of America, and
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  Speaker 2: I think when all is said and done, the Trump
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  Speaker 2: accounts will be the vehicle for the largest philanthropic giving
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  Speaker 2: in the history of the United States of America, all
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  Speaker 2: of which is directed at our kids.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to be massive, and I think it's
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  Speaker 1: going to have such an impact, and as you said,
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  Speaker 1: I believe, by the way, this is probably going to
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  Speaker 1: be the tip of the iceberg. I think that's what
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  Speaker 1: you had been telegraphing for quite some time. And now
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  Speaker 1: we're seeing the reality of that, that Elon is leading
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  Speaker 1: the way. But many others are probably going to step
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  Speaker 1: up and do the exact same thing. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: as you mentioned on the show, and this should excite people,
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  Speaker 1: it may be that somebody who maybe doesn't have as
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  Speaker 1: much money as Elon Musk, but has a lot of money,
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  Speaker 1: decides to donate shares to every kid in the school
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  Speaker 1: system in their community where.
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  Speaker 3: They grew up. Yes, you can target it. Or they
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  Speaker 3: were born.
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  Speaker 2: Right. So I designed the legislation so you can turn
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  Speaker 2: the dials. Look how Michael Dell did it. You can
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  Speaker 2: turn them, number one, geographically. You can decide to sponsor
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  Speaker 2: kids in your state. You can decide to sponsor kids
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  Speaker 2: down to the zip code level. You can also choose ages. So,
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  Speaker 2: for example, Michael and Susan Dell chose kids under 10.
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  Speaker 2: Gwen Shotwell specifically chose kids under 10 to 18 because
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  Speaker 2: Dell was giving to the younger kids and she wanted
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  Speaker 2: to spread out the benefits. I think that was a
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  Speaker 2: very reasonable and wise decision. You can target it age-wise.
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  Speaker 2: Brad Gerstner has given the kids, I believe, under five
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  Speaker 2: in Indiana. But you can also target it based on income.
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  Speaker 2: So a number of these have done what the Dells did,
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  Speaker 2: which is pick zip codes where the median income is
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  Speaker 2: $ 150, 000 or less. So, you know, Beverly Hills, really rich neighborhoods,
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  Speaker 2: don't necessarily need the funds, but neighborhoods where you have
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  Speaker 2: kids of lower income, you can target it to them.
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  Speaker 2: It can allow massive, I mean, $ 11 billion is an
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  Speaker 2: enormous gift, but that can be scaled much smaller. And
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  Speaker 2: by the way, two things about the charitable giving into
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  Speaker 2: Trump accounts. One, It allows for much smaller gifts. So
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  Speaker 2: the Trump account app is really cool. It's easy to use.
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  Speaker 2: It was actually Joe Jebbia, who was one of the
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  Speaker 2: founders of Airbnb, who came into the Trump administration and
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  Speaker 2: has been spending his time helping the federal government meet
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  Speaker 2: the needs of American citizens. And he designed the app.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll say the app, if you have not used
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  Speaker 2: the Trump account app, you should. It is the most
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  Speaker 2: consumer-friendly app the federal government has ever produced. And it
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  Speaker 2: makes it very easy to give to a kid's Trump account.
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  Speaker 2: It produces a QR code. And for little things, for
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  Speaker 2: a birthday party, for a bar mitzvah, for a graduation gift,
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  Speaker 2: instead of uncles and aunts and friends giving gifts that'll
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  Speaker 2: be discarded that no one will care about, instead of
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  Speaker 2: an ugly sweater, you can have people give 25, 50,
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  Speaker 2: 100 bucks to a Trump account, and that accumulates savings
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  Speaker 2: and investment. And all of this is invested in the
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  Speaker 2: stock market. Remember, this is not a savings account. This
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  Speaker 2: is invested directly in the S & P 500. I
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  Speaker 2: think you're going to see a lot of small level gifts,
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  Speaker 2: micro gifts that will be massive over time. But there's
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  Speaker 2: also a component. So I've talked about Michael and Susan
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  Speaker 2: Dell are friends. I admire and respect them a great deal.
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  Speaker 2: They're worth about $ 200 billion, depending on where Dell stock
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  Speaker 2: is trading on any given day. $ 200 billion is an
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  Speaker 2: enormous amount of money. It's not as much as Elon has,
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  Speaker 2: but $ 200 billion is a lot. And Michael and Susan
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  Speaker 2: are smart and responsible, and so they've thought very seriously
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  Speaker 2: about how do you dispose of a fortune that massive?
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  Speaker 2: And the reality is it's very hard to do that.
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  Speaker 2: If you give a charity a billion dollars, almost any
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  Speaker 2: charity would be swamped by a billion dollars. It's too
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  Speaker 2: much money for a charity to absorb. And one of
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  Speaker 2: the things that excited Michael and Susan about this is
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  Speaker 2: this is infinitely scalable. I don't think they're done at
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  Speaker 2: six and a quarter billion. I think they started with that.
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  Speaker 2: But the beauty of Trump accounts is this can scale up.
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  Speaker 2: You can give six and a quarter billion. You can
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  Speaker 2: give 11 billion like Elon did. You can give 25 billion,
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  Speaker 2: 50 billion, 100 billion. You could give a trillion dollars
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  Speaker 2: to Trump accounts. And because it's every kid in America...
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  Speaker 2: It's big enough to absorb it, and what's wonderful is
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  Speaker 2: there's no transaction cost. Whatever you give goes 100% straight
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  Speaker 2: to the accounts, and kids begin accumulating and compounding savings.
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  Speaker 2: I think you're going to see a number of particularly very,
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  Speaker 2: very wealthy individuals giving massive gifts like we've already seen
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  Speaker 2: from the Dells and Elon. I think that's just the beginning,
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  Speaker 2: and I think we're going to see dozens and hundreds
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  Speaker 2: and in time thousands more following down that path.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with you there.
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  Speaker 1: It's a big, big moment for the kids in the
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  Speaker 1: future of this country. And as you said, philanthropists who
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  Speaker 1: want to get involved. And it's going to pay huge dividends.
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  Speaker 1: And I got to say, well done to Elon Musk
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  Speaker 1: for doing this the way he has.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, one of the really cool things. So
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  Speaker 2: Michael and Susan Dell have been posting on Twitter. So
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  Speaker 2: they've been getting thank you notes. from kids all over
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  Speaker 2: the country, because the way your Trump account works, you get, hey,
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  Speaker 2: you got $ 250 donated to you that appeared in your account,
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  Speaker 2: was invested in the stock market from the Michael and
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  Speaker 2: Susan Dell Foundation, and so they've been getting kids, little kids,
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  Speaker 2: with crayons, writing them thank you notes. I mean, look,
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  Speaker 2: giving someone $ 250, he doesn't know those kids, they don't
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  Speaker 2: know those kids, and it's been great. Michael and Susan
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  Speaker 2: have been posting this publicly, and it's a beautiful, not
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  Speaker 2: only do I know this, it really means a lot
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  Speaker 2: to them to be thanked by the kids. But it
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  Speaker 2: also is an encouragement to lots of other people to say, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I would like to give a gift that really makes
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  Speaker 2: a difference in a kid's future. And that outpouring of
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  Speaker 2: appreciation is really powerful for encouraging more charitable gifts directly
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  Speaker 2: targeting our kids.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, amen to that.
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  Speaker 1: I want to move from that story to one that's
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  Speaker 1: very different, and that deals with one of your colleagues
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  Speaker 1: from Michigan who Saying this at the University of Chicago campus,
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  Speaker 1: warning conservatives, young conservatives, you do not want to go
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  Speaker 1: work in the Trump administration because if you do, it
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  Speaker 1: could have lasting effects on your life.
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  Speaker 3: Here she is at the University of Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: moment at the University of Chicago, their political institute, and
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  Speaker 1: one of your colleagues said this.
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  Speaker 4: So that's what I'm saying. I want to look at
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  Speaker 4: these signature cases and not just focus on the president,
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  Speaker 4: but on the people who enabled him. I want young
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  Speaker 4: people coming out of school to say, should I go
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  Speaker 4: work for the Trump administration? Like, that sounds fun. I
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: might get an opportunity. I want them to be like, Lord,
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  Speaker 4: that might be buying myself a ton of problems that
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  Speaker 4: I don't want. And so let me avoid participating in that.
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  Speaker 4: I want that deterrence message.
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  Speaker 1: Let's be clear what she's saying, Senator. She's saying... I
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  Speaker 1: want to weaponize the government to break people. I want
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  Speaker 1: to financially ruin and destroy people that go work for
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump. I want good people to be afraid to
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  Speaker 1: work anywhere in this administration, serving their fellow man in
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  Speaker 1: our government. And you better say to yourself, this is
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  Speaker 1: not a good opportunity for me to go work for
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  Speaker 1: the president of the United States of America. This is
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity that could land me in jail or bankrupt
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  Speaker 1: or indicted or worse, apparently.
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  Speaker 2: Well, unfortunately, nothing you're saying there is hyperbole. None of
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  Speaker 2: that is an exaggeration. You know, Alyssa Slotkin is a
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  Speaker 2: freshman senator. She was newly elected from Michigan. She's a Democrat.
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  Speaker 2: And she styles herself a moderate. She tells the voters, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a moderate. I'm a reasonable middle-of-the-road Democrat. She is not.
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  Speaker 2: This is powerful evidence. Now, Alyssa Slotkin is also actively
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  Speaker 2: campaigning for Abdul Al-Sayed, who is He, along with James Tallarico,
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  Speaker 2: are the two most dangerous and radical Senate candidates in
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  Speaker 2: the country, and Alyssa Slotkin is happily and enthusiastically supporting El-Sayed.
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  Speaker 2: What she is saying here is openly weaponizing the federal government.
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  Speaker 2: And understand, she's not saying if someone commits a criminal offense,
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: we're going to prosecute them. That's actually a reasonable statement.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: That's a statement I agree with. If you commit a
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  Speaker 2: criminal offense, you should be prosecuted regardless of your party.
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  Speaker 2: She's saying, no, I want us to go after young people.
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  Speaker 2: She is targeting kids. She's targeting 21, 22-year-old kids fresh
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  Speaker 2: out of college. And she's saying, if you go take
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  Speaker 2: a job in the federal government, when the Democrats get
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  Speaker 2: in power, we're going to come after you. And by
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  Speaker 2: the way, what 21, 22-year-old can defend themselves against a prosecution,
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  Speaker 2: against civil liability? I mean, you want to talk about
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  Speaker 2: bankrupting kids, and she's very open about it. She wants
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  Speaker 2: to deter, she wants college graduates to say, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to work for the federal government because
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats are going to inflict so much pain.
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  Speaker 3: Look at her quote.
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  Speaker 2: I want young people coming out of school to say,
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  Speaker 2: should I go work for the Trump administration? Like, that
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: sounds fun. I might get an opportunity. I want them
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  Speaker 2: to be like, Lord, that might be buying myself a
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  Speaker 2: ton of problems that I don't want. So let me
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  Speaker 2: avoid participating in that. I want that deterrence message. She's
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: not suggesting anyone committed any crime, did anything wrong. She's
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: just saying, if you go work for them, we are
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  Speaker 2: going to punish you. We are going to abuse you.
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  Speaker 2: We are going to use the power of the government
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  Speaker 2: to crush you. I'm going to be honest. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know anyone else who's made.
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  Speaker 3: A threat like this.
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  Speaker 2: Law professor Jonathan Turley rightly criticized the remarks he said
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: that she had, quote, said the quiet part out loud.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: And I think that's right. But it is really open
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  Speaker 2: and direct. And look, Barack Obama... began the practice of
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  Speaker 2: weaponizing the federal government and successfully weaponizing the federal government.
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  Speaker 2: And what Richard Nixon had tried to do, when Nixon
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: tried to use the federal government to go after his
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  Speaker 2: political opponents, the system worked and it actually resisted his
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: effort to politicize the federal government. Well, what Nixon tried
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: to do, Barack Obama succeeded in doing. Look, Lois Lerner
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  Speaker 2: used the IRS to target conservatives, to go after conservatives,
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  Speaker 2: people who did things like defended the Constitution. They made
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: the Constitution a key word that if you spoke out
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  Speaker 2: in favor of the Constitution, they would target and persecute you.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, Lois Lerner was held in contempt
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  Speaker 2: of Congress. She repeatedly pleaded the Fifth. And it was
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  Speaker 2: open weaponization. What Nixon tried to do, Obama succeeded in doing,
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: and then Biden made it even worse. You remember his
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  Speaker 2: attorney general, Merrick Garland, wrote a memo to the FBI
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  Speaker 2: directing the FBI to target parents. who exercise their First
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  Speaker 2: Amendment rights and go to school boards and to target
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: them as domestic terrorists. Again, this was weaponization because they
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: didn't want parents speaking out on behalf of their kids.
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  Speaker 2: Slotkin is taking it further. We're going to go after kids.
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  Speaker 2: And it is a sign of just how radical today's
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Democrat Party is.
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  Speaker 1: When you look at what she said there, how many
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  Speaker 1: of your colleagues on the left probably agree with her,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: just are not willing to say that, as you mentioned earlier?
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  Speaker 1: as you were quoting there, the silent part out loud.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I don't know of a single one of my
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Democrat colleagues who's disagreed with her. If there has been
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: even one Democrat senator who has said, Alyssa was wrong.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: We should not be persecuting kids fresh out of college
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  Speaker 2: to go work for the federal government. If they've said it,
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: I haven't seen it. And look, most of them wouldn't
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: say that out loud. But you know what? During Barack Obama,
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: not a single Democrat senator spoke up and said, this
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: is wrong. During Joe Biden, not a single Democrat senator
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: spoke up and said, this is wrong. When Donald Trump
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: was indicted, not once, not twice, not three times, but
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: four separate times, not even one Democrat senator spoke up
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: and said this is wrong. When Democrat judges ordered that
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Trump be removed from the ballot so the voters couldn't
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: vote for him, not a single Democrat senator spoke up
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: and said this is wrong. By the way, those decisions
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: were reversed unanimously by the U.S. Supreme Court, and yet
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: every single Senate Democrat was silent. And, and Listen, as
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: radical as they were under Obama, as even more radical
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: as they became under Biden, if the Democrats, if these
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Democrats get power again, they will make us long for
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: the days of Obama and Biden. They are so filled
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: with rage. Listen, Alyssa Slotkin... is not perceived as one
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: of the more left-wing members of the Senate. Now, her
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: voting record essentially is, but she at least likes to
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: hold herself out as a moderate, and she's perfectly happy saying,
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: let's persecute the kids, let's punish them, let's abuse government
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: power because we hate the other party. That is a really,
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: really dangerous threshold to cross.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a great point. We're going to keep covering
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: this story. I can promise you as we get closer
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: to Election Day. Which brings us to our final story,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: and it deals with what could America look like if
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: we don't get our heads, in many ways, out of
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: our rear end. And I'm referencing what we're watching in
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: France right now. I worry, Senator, that we are a
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: lot closer to what we're witnessing in France and the rioting.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: and the looting than people want to admit. And I
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: want to get your reaction to that. But before we
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: get to that, let me talk to you real quick
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: about election day, the midterm elections are here. And if
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: the DSA Democrats win, they'll push a radical socialist agenda
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: and drown president Trump in endless investigations. We've seen their
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: playbook before. They tried impeaching him. They tried putting him
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: in prison. They've tried everything. So don't let them win
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: because if we lose, They'll undo everything our movement has
• 26:19
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• 27:01
  Speaker 1: down where we are in France. It is very interesting
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: to see Not only is France not really getting this
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: under control, we're now learning that there are going to
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: be other, as I would describe them, protests and days
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: of raids are being planned, not only around France in general,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: but also in Europe. And many are concerned the same
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: thing's about to happen here.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Well, we did a deep dive in Monday's pod into
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: the origins of the riots in Paris and France, and
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: they are being funded by a global network of the
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: same radical leftists, the same Marxist and Islamist who funded
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: the violence here in the United States, who funded the
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Black Lives Matter riots in burning cities across America, who
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: funded the anti-Semitic protests on college campuses across America. who
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: funded the open border protests in cities across America. These
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: same radicals, including the Singham Network, are funding this. And
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Europe is foreshadowing where America is headed. Europe, tragically, is
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: committing cultural suicide. They have invited millions of people into Europe.
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  Speaker 2: who don't share their culture, who don't share their values,
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: who don't share their faith, and who hate the countries
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: they've come into. France has welcomed these Islamists who are
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: burning France, and they're angry, they're filled with rage, and
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: the thing to understand is Europe, I think, is about
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: 10 years ahead of America. It's showing us if we
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: keep going down this road, we will be right where
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: they are. And understand, the Democrats are a-okay with that.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Have you seen any Democrats speaking out against the riots
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: in France? To the contrary. All right, let's take, for example,
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Ro Khanna. Now, Ro Khanna is another Democrat. He's a
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Democrat congressman from Silicon Valley, actually, elected out of California.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: And just like Alyssa Slotkin, when he ran, he held
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: himself out as a moderate. He held himself out as
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: not a left-winger, but a moderate. Here's what Ro Khanna tweeted.
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  Speaker 2: I want to read the whole thing to you. From
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: the high schools of France to the streets of Madrid
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: to the universities of Tirana, young people are telling their
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: governments the same thing. In an age of massive wealth inequality,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: they want a future they can believe in. In France,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: students and teachers are asking for safe schools, enough teachers,
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  Speaker 2: and smaller classes. In Spain, for affordable rent and housing.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: In Albania, for good jobs and an end to corruption.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: JD Vance says this is what happens when a nation
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: lets too many immigrants from the global south. He is
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: not just morally wrong, but misreading the moment. This is
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: what happens when when nations let wealth and power accumulate
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: in the hands of a few. This is what happened
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: when young people lose hope in their future. In America,
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: let us listen to our young. We need an economic
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: and political transformation, America's next New Deal. Now, this is
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: a supposed moderate who's embracing, he's lying about what's happening
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: in America. In France, he's claiming it is a student
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: uprising when you see adults, you see Islamists, you see
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: people waving Palestinian flags, you see communists waving communist banners.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: But you know one of the most ironic things about
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: Ro Khanna's tweet?
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: What's that?
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: It's the utter hypocrisy. Ben, do you know how much
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Ro Khanna is personally worth?
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: I'm going to guess decent seven figures.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. You are way,
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: way off.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: It's not seven figures.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Really? It's not eight figures. It is nine figures. I
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: just typed into Google, how much is Ro Khanna worth?
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: And here's the answer. U.S. Representative Ro Khanna has an
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: estimated net worth ranging from approximately $ 230 million to over
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: $ 340 million. So this is a guy who's worth a
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: third of a billion dollars. who is lecturing these riots
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  Speaker 2: in France are because of the accumulation of wealth in
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: the hands of a few. Well, Roe, I got a suggestion.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: Why don't you take your $ 340 million and maybe give
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: a million dollars to 340 of your neighbors? Why do
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: you need, okay, 339. You can keep one for yourself
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: and give the rest of it away because you're happy
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: to support the communists. But yet, amazingly, you exempt yourself
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: from the consequences of this, the utter hypocrisy. And you
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: see this on the left over and over and over again.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: $ 340 million is a lot of money, and yet without
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: a hint of chagrin, without a hint of embarrassment, he
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: blasts the accumulation of wealth in the hands of a few.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: That's today's Democrat Party.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: It really is, and it's exactly what they believe in.
• 32:16
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• 32:25
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