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Macron thinks Celine Dion is FIRE, Liberals Target & Intimidate Future Republicans plus Say Her Name 'Ilhan Nur Said Elmi' Week In Review · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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  Speaker 1: Welcome, it is Verdict with Ted Cruz, Week in Review,
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  Speaker 1: Ben Ferguson with you, and these are the stories that
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  Speaker 1: you may have missed that we talked about this week.
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  Speaker 1: First up, France is burning, and the leadership, Macron especially,
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  Speaker 1: is completely silent on what's actually happening. So how did
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  Speaker 1: they lose their country.
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  Speaker 2: And get to this point? We break it down.
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  Speaker 1: Next up, a shocking attack on your freedom to work
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  Speaker 1: in our federal government to serve the president. United States
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  Speaker 1: of America is a radical left. Democratic senator is now
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  Speaker 1: warning young people that your life may be ruined if
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  Speaker 1: you go work for President Donald J.
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  Speaker 2: Trump and the administration.
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  Speaker 1: So is there any pushback or is this the new reality?
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  Speaker 1: We break that down as well. And finally, Elam Omar,
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  Speaker 1: if that's actually really even her name, well, is now
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  Speaker 1: under even more scrutiny in the investigation against her. So
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  Speaker 1: what are the facts? What do we know? And what
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  Speaker 1: is the next steps? We have that for you as well.
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  Speaker 1: It's the Week in Review, and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, France leadership is also really shocking right now.
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  Speaker 1: Macron is basically lame duck. He's out in, I think,
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  Speaker 1: six months or less. he did a address to the nation,
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  Speaker 1: I think it was Sunday night over there, where he
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  Speaker 1: was saying, I can't believe that the French people would
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  Speaker 1: do this to France. There was an amount of just
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  Speaker 1: pathological being tone death to reality. Instead of calling it
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  Speaker 1: out the way that you just did, that this is
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  Speaker 1: a massive immigration problem, Islamist problem, communist problem, And realizing
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the protesters clearly are people that have
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  Speaker 1: come into France. They were not born in France.
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  Speaker 2: Who he's invited. Who he has invited.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. And embraced and welcomed. Come invade my nation and
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  Speaker 3: destroy it.
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  Speaker 1: And he sits there and goes, I can't believe the
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  Speaker 1: people of France, right? The citizens of France would do
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  Speaker 1: this to France. And I'm like, dude, if you don't
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  Speaker 1: know who's doing this to you, which is people, again,
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  Speaker 1: you've invited them in, but they're not the people of France.
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  Speaker 1: The people of France, the majority of them are terrified
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  Speaker 1: and saddened by what they're watching.
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  Speaker 3: Look, that is exactly right. It turns out the reverse
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  Speaker 3: crusades were a really bad idea. Look, you look at
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  Speaker 3: the crusades, the crusades where a bunch of Christians came
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  Speaker 3: in and invaded the Middle East. Well, this is now
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  Speaker 3: Muslim nations invading Europe and destroying them.
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  Speaker 2: And I want you to listen to this.
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  Speaker 3: This was a couple of weeks ago that a French woman,
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  Speaker 3: a French woman named Thais de Escoffan, although my French
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  Speaker 3: is not very good, she posted this video on Twitter,
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  Speaker 3: and I actually retweeted it.
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  Speaker 2: Elon Musk retweeted it.
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  Speaker 3: It's really powerful, and she's just a beautiful French woman
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  Speaker 3: who is... grieving what is happening to the country she
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  Speaker 3: loves and the culture she loves. I want you to
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  Speaker 3: give a listen to what she has to say.
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  Speaker 4: Hello to all friends of Europeans. I am native French
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  Speaker 4: and I am so ashamed. I'm not ashamed of being French,
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  Speaker 4: of course, but I'm so ashamed to see France accumulating
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  Speaker 4: itself like this. being dragged through the muds for the
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  Speaker 4: full world to see. For more than three days now,
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  Speaker 4: you've seen that high school students have been wrecking havoc
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  Speaker 4: across France to protest against their overly demanding school schedules,
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  Speaker 4: poor things, and the lack of resources in schools to
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  Speaker 4: provide them with a better quality of education. Here, for example,
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  Speaker 4: you can see high school students protesting against the lack
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  Speaker 4: of trash cans in their schools. Here, against the shortage
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  Speaker 4: of teachers.
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  Speaker 2: And here, against student poverty by setting fire to.
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  Speaker 4: The eco-friendly, anti-racist Nelson Mandela High School, which costed 77
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  Speaker 4: millions to build. Obviously, you understand that all of this
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  Speaker 4: is nothing more than an excuse found by a certain
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  Speaker 4: New France to skip school and unleash all their hatred
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  Speaker 4: against everything that represents France, the police and even firefighters,
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  Speaker 4: because They're racists. Meanwhile, Macron remains silent because he has
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  Speaker 4: completely lost control. And you know, I remember when I
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  Speaker 4: was in middle school, the 2005 riots in the suburbs
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  Speaker 4: were discussed in contemporary history class. But now immigrants and
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  Speaker 4: their descendants are everywhere. They are no longer confined to
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  Speaker 4: the suburbs. Looting and mob violence are becoming increasingly frequent.
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  Speaker 4: The Nile case, every PSG match celebration, Black Lives Matter
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  Speaker 4: and so on. Not to mention the everyday assaults, murders
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  Speaker 4: and rapes committed against our people. It has become so
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  Speaker 4: recurrent that no one would even bother keeping track of
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  Speaker 4: every riot anymore. It has become almost normal. Every generation
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  Speaker 4: of immigrants hates us more than the one before. Some
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  Speaker 4: of these rioters are 14, 15 years old. However, they
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  Speaker 4: were born here, raised here. So do you really think
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  Speaker 4: things are going to get better? We have done everything
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  Speaker 4: for them. Everything. Social benefits, anti-racist policies, new schools. And
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  Speaker 4: this is how they thank us? Assimilation is a myth.
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  Speaker 4: We have to stop pretending it is possible to make
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  Speaker 4: it work anymore. Now they are trying to make us
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  Speaker 4: feel sorry for them because one of them lost an
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  Speaker 4: eye while attacking police officers. I can tell you that
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  Speaker 4: not only will I never shed a single tear for
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  Speaker 4: these thugs, but they would deserve for there to be
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  Speaker 4: more of them. The question is, How did we ever
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  Speaker 4: get to this point? France, like this jewel of European civilization,
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  Speaker 4: a country of extraordinary cultural wealth, brought to its knees
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  Speaker 4: by Turks with an IQ of 80? They only understand force,
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  Speaker 4: and we are too weak. We need to get rid
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  Speaker 4: of all empathy. These people hate us and would like
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  Speaker 4: to see us dead, so we will never coexist peacefully.
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  Speaker 4: It is either them for us so the reasonable and
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  Speaker 4: peaceful solution is to send them back to the countries
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  Speaker 4: of origin they love so much. Please share this video. Americans, Westerners,
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  Speaker 4: Europeans and their friends, the French are counting on you
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  Speaker 4: to shine a light on what the media refuse to
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  Speaker 4: show about the situation here. Look at what we have become.
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  Speaker 4: Do not make the same mistakes we did. Close your
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  Speaker 4: borders while you still have time. Across the world, European
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  Speaker 4: peoples are facing the same problems. We are all in
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  Speaker 4: this together and together we will prevail.
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  Speaker 1: Senator, you know, you listen to this video and then
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  Speaker 1: you look at one of the other pictures that has
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  Speaker 1: gone viral over the last, I don't know, 12 hours.
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  Speaker 1: There is a couple in Paris. where the rioters robbed them.
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  Speaker 1: They were in their 80s, and they left them only
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  Speaker 1: in their underwear. They stole their clothes. They stole all
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  Speaker 1: of their belongings. And the picture shows the masked men.
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  Speaker 1: They're all in black. They have the hoodies on with
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  Speaker 1: two people that are in their 80s. I mean, an 80-year-old,
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  Speaker 1: they look like they are 80. The man is in
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  Speaker 1: his underwear. The woman is in her underwear, nightgown-esque type thing.
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  Speaker 1: They stole everything that they had in the streets, and
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  Speaker 1: no one stopped them, and they're 80.
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  Speaker 2: Look, this is evil. This is violent. This is dangerous.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, the tragedy is this was invited by
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  Speaker 3: the French government. It has been invited by Europe. They
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  Speaker 3: have welcomed Islamist invaders. You know, one of the most
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  Speaker 3: profound things that that young woman said there is each
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  Speaker 3: generation of these immigrants hates us more than the one
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  Speaker 3: before them.
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  Speaker 2: And we are seeing this. This is not.
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  Speaker 3: Look, America, we're a country of immigrants, but immigrants who
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  Speaker 3: came here to assimilate. One of the things she says
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  Speaker 3: also is assimilation is a myth. If you look at
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  Speaker 3: particularly the illegal immigrants in America who Joe Biden and
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  Speaker 3: the Democrats invited in, they invited them in to change
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  Speaker 3: this country, not to become Americans, but to fundamentally tear
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  Speaker 3: this country down. You look at the Islamist... whether Abdul
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  Speaker 3: Zayed or whether Zoran Mondami, they want to fundamentally change
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  Speaker 3: this country and mandate Sharia law and take away our liberties.
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  Speaker 3: That's what is at stake here. And I got to say,
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  Speaker 3: you know, another video that went viral that I want
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  Speaker 3: to play right now is a video of another pretty
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  Speaker 3: young French woman, although this pretty young French woman is
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  Speaker 3: a leftist. And she originally started joining the protest because
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  Speaker 3: as a leftist, she's like, oh, this protesting is great.
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  Speaker 3: But it so happens that this French woman is also,
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  Speaker 3: her father owns a store and the protesters began looting
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  Speaker 3: the store. And the video I'm going to play, it's
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  Speaker 3: in French. So Ben and I are going to narrate
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  Speaker 3: the English translation of what she's saying.
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  Speaker 2: If you can.
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  Speaker 3: Watch the video, this is a good one to watch
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  Speaker 3: on YouTube because the images are really profound. But I
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  Speaker 3: want to play it And Ben and I, while it's playing,
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  Speaker 3: are going to tell you in English what she's saying.
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  Speaker 2: Here, give a listen.
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  Speaker 1: She starts yelling, stop. Why are you doing this? This
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  Speaker 1: isn't the cause. Don't touch me. Stop it, she says.
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  Speaker 1: This ain't your store. My father's store. Get some wine,
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  Speaker 1: one of the people yells. They're in the store, destroyed.
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  Speaker 1: I'm done shopping, one of them says. There's shampoo, want
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  Speaker 1: some ice cream.
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  Speaker 3: The look of horror on this young woman's face, it's
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  Speaker 3: an image that has gone viral, the look of just
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  Speaker 3: agony and horror. And the line she said, this isn't
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  Speaker 3: the cause, and she says that multiple times, this isn't
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  Speaker 3: the cause.
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  Speaker 2: This isn't the cause.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, they forcibly push her out of
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  Speaker 3: the way and they're just breaking into the store. They're
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  Speaker 3: trashing it. They're taking everything from the store. And these
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  Speaker 3: are thieves and criminals. And you see this young leftist
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  Speaker 3: who understands she voted for this. This is what she wanted.
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  Speaker 3: These are the people she wanted in France. And you see, look,
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  Speaker 3: when the mob comes for you, they turn on even
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  Speaker 3: the naive liberals who welcome them in. And it is tragic,
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  Speaker 3: but it's also a real warning to America. Yeah, it is.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, the numbers are not just like
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  Speaker 1: 10 stores or 20 stores. It is in the thousands,
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  Speaker 1: they say, of stores that have been ransacked, looted or attacked.
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  Speaker 1: In all across France. I mean, when we say this
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  Speaker 1: is widespread and anarchy, that is literally what this is.
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  Speaker 1: It's not in one little area. This is in multiple places.
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  Speaker 1: They're also going after the government buildings, historic buildings, burning churches.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there is nothing that is off limits in
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  Speaker 1: France right now.
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  Speaker 3: And understand, like the Black Lives Matter riots in the
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  Speaker 3: United States, like the anti-Semitic protests and riots on college
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  Speaker 3: campuses across the country, like the open border riots we
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  Speaker 3: had in America, this is not organic.
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  Speaker 2: This is funded.
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  Speaker 1: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation,
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  Speaker 1: you can go back and listen to the full podcast
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  Speaker 1: from earlier this week.
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  Speaker 2: Now on to story number two.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, amen to that. I want to move from that
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  Speaker 1: story to one that's very different. And that deals with
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  Speaker 1: one of your colleagues from Michigan saying this at the
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  Speaker 1: University of Chicago campus, warning conservatives, young conservatives, you do
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  Speaker 1: not want to go work in the Trump administration because
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  Speaker 1: if you do, it could have lasting effects on your life.
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  Speaker 1: Here she is at the University of Chicago, their political institute,
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  Speaker 1: and one of your colleagues said this.
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  Speaker 5: So that's what I'm saying. I want to look at
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  Speaker 5: these signature cases and not just focus on the president,
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  Speaker 5: but on the people who enabled him. I want young
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  Speaker 5: people coming out of school to say, should I go
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  Speaker 5: work for the Trump administration? Like, that sounds fun. I
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  Speaker 5: might get an opportunity. I want them to be like, Lord,
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  Speaker 5: that might be buying myself a ton of problems that
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  Speaker 5: I don't want. And so let me avoid participating in that.
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  Speaker 5: I want that deterrence message.
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  Speaker 1: Let's be clear what she's saying, Senator.
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  Speaker 2: She's saying.
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  Speaker 1: I want to weaponize the government to break people. I
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  Speaker 1: want to financially ruin and destroy people that go work
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  Speaker 1: for Donald Trump. I want good people to be afraid
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  Speaker 1: to work anywhere in this administration, serving their fellow man
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  Speaker 1: in our government. And you better say to yourself, this
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  Speaker 1: is not a good opportunity for me to go work
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  Speaker 1: for the president of 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 3: Well, unfortunately, nothing you're saying there is hyperbole. None of
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  Speaker 3: that is an exaggeration. You know, Alyssa Slotkin is a
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  Speaker 3: freshman senator. She was newly elected from Michigan. She's a Democrat.
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  Speaker 3: And she styles herself a moderate. She tells the voters, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I'm a moderate. I'm a reasonable middle-of-the-road Democrat.
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  Speaker 2: She is not.
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  Speaker 3: This is powerful evidence. Now, Alyssa Slotkin is also actively
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  Speaker 3: campaigning for Abdul Al-Sayed, who is He, along with James Tallarico,
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  Speaker 3: are the two most dangerous and radical Senate candidates in
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  Speaker 3: the country, and Alyssa Slotkin is happily and enthusiastically supporting El-Sayed.
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  Speaker 3: What she is saying here is openly weaponizing the federal government.
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  Speaker 3: And understand, she's not saying, if someone commits a criminal offense,
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  Speaker 3: we're going to prosecute them. That's actually a reasonable statement.
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  Speaker 3: That's a statement I agree with. If you commit a
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  Speaker 3: criminal offense, you should be prosecuted regardless of your party.
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  Speaker 3: She's saying, no, I want us to go after young people.
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  Speaker 3: She is targeting kids. She's targeting 21, 22-year-old kids fresh
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  Speaker 3: out of college. And she's saying, if you go take
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  Speaker 3: a job in the federal government, when the Democrats get
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  Speaker 3: in power, we're going to come after you. And by
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  Speaker 3: the way, what 21, 22-year-old can defend themselves against a prosecution,
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  Speaker 3: against civil liability? I mean, you want to talk about
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  Speaker 3: bankrupting kids, and she's very open about it. She wants
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  Speaker 3: to deter. She wants college graduates to say, you know what?
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to work for the federal government because
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  Speaker 3: the Democrats are going to inflict so much pain.
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  Speaker 2: Look at her quote.
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  Speaker 3: I want young people coming out of school to say,
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  Speaker 3: should I go work for the Trump administration? Like, that
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  Speaker 3: sounds fun. I might get an opportunity. I want them
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  Speaker 3: to be like, Lord, that might be buying myself a
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  Speaker 3: ton of problems that I don't want. So let me
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  Speaker 3: avoid participating in that. I want that deterrence message. She's
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  Speaker 3: not suggesting anyone committed any crime, did anything wrong. She's
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  Speaker 3: just saying, if you go work for them, we are
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  Speaker 3: going to punish you. We are going to abuse you.
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  Speaker 3: We are going to use the power of the government
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  Speaker 3: to crush you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to be honest.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know anyone else who's made
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  Speaker 3: a threat like this. Law professor Jonathan Turley rightly criticized
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  Speaker 3: the remarks he said that she had, quote, said the
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  Speaker 3: quiet part out loud. And I think that's right. But
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  Speaker 3: it is really open and direct. And look, Barack Obama...
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  Speaker 3: began the practice of weaponizing the federal government and successfully
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  Speaker 3: weaponizing the federal government. And what Richard Nixon had tried
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  Speaker 3: to do, when Nixon tried to use the federal government
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  Speaker 3: to go after his political opponents, the system worked and
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  Speaker 3: it actually resisted his effort to politicize the federal government. Well,
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  Speaker 3: what Nixon tried to do, Barack Obama succeeded in doing. Look,
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  Speaker 3: Lois Lerner used the IRS to target conservatives, to go
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  Speaker 3: after conservatives, people who did things like defended the Constitution.
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  Speaker 3: They made the Constitution a key word that if you
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  Speaker 3: spoke out in favor of the Constitution, they would target
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  Speaker 3: and persecute you. And by the way, Lois Lerner was
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  Speaker 3: held in contempt of Congress. She repeatedly pleaded the Fifth.
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  Speaker 3: And it was open weaponization. What Nixon tried to do,
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  Speaker 3: Obama succeeded in doing, and then Biden made it even worse.
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  Speaker 3: You remember his attorney general, Merrick Garland, wrote a memo
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  Speaker 3: to the FBI directing the FBI to target parents who
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  Speaker 3: exercise their First Amendment rights and go to school boards
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  Speaker 3: and to target them as domestic terrorists. Again, this was
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  Speaker 3: weaponization because they didn't want parents speaking out on behalf
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  Speaker 3: of their kids. Slotkin is taking it further. We're going
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  Speaker 3: to go after kids. And it is a sign of
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  Speaker 3: just how radical today's 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,
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  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.
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  Speaker 3: Part out loud? Look, I don't know of a single
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  Speaker 3: one of my Democrat colleagues who's disagreed with her. If
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  Speaker 3: there has been even one Democrat Senator who has said,
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  Speaker 3: Alyssa was wrong. We should not be persecuting kids fresh
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  Speaker 3: out of college, go work for the federal government. If
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  Speaker 3: they've said it, I haven't seen it. And look, most
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  Speaker 3: of them wouldn't say that out loud, but you know what?
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  Speaker 3: During Barack Obama, not a single Democrat Senator spoke up
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  Speaker 3: and said, this is wrong. During Joe Biden, not a
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  Speaker 3: single Democrat Senator spoke up and said, this is wrong.
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  Speaker 3: When Donald Trump was indicted, not once, not twice, not
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  Speaker 3: three times, but four separate times, not even one Democrat
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  Speaker 3: senator spoke up and said this is wrong. When Democrat
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  Speaker 3: judges ordered that Trump be removed from the ballot so
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  Speaker 3: the voters couldn't vote for him, not a single Democrat
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  Speaker 3: senator spoke up and said this is wrong. By the way,
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  Speaker 3: those decisions were reversed unanimously by the U.S. Supreme Court,
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  Speaker 3: and yet every single Senate Democrat was silent. And... Listen,
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  Speaker 3: as radical as they were under Obama, as even more
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  Speaker 3: radical as they became under Biden, if the Democrats, if
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  Speaker 3: these Democrats get power again, they will make us long
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  Speaker 3: for the days of Obama and Biden. They are so
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  Speaker 3: filled with rage. Listen, Alyssa Slotkin... is not perceived as
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  Speaker 3: one of the more left-wing members of the Senate. Now,
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  Speaker 3: her voting record essentially is, but she at least likes
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  Speaker 3: to hold herself out as a moderate, and she's perfectly
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  Speaker 3: happy saying, let's persecute the kids, let's punish them, let's
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  Speaker 3: abuse government power, because we hate... the other party. That
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  Speaker 3: is a really, really dangerous threshold to cross.
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  Speaker 1: As before, if you want to hear the rest of
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  Speaker 1: this conversation on this topic, you can go back and
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  Speaker 1: download the podcast from earlier this week to hear the
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  Speaker 1: entire thing. I want to get back to the big story,
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  Speaker 1: number three of the week you may have missed. All right, Senator,
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  Speaker 1: I want to get back to, again, one of the
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  Speaker 1: really interesting stories of the week dealt with one of
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  Speaker 1: the members of the squad, one of the most radical
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  Speaker 1: leftists in Congress, Alam Omar. That might not even be
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  Speaker 1: her real name. And yeah, so we don't know exactly
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  Speaker 1: how old she is. We don't know what her name is.
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  Speaker 1: And we're not sure if she did or didn't apparently
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  Speaker 1: possibly marry her brother. And we know that she's under
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  Speaker 1: a major investigation.
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  Speaker 3: Well, in this past week, the Department of Justice executed
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  Speaker 3: a search warrant on Ilhan Omar's home. She is a
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  Speaker 3: congresswoman from Minnesota. She is one of the most radical, noxious, Marxist, Islamist,
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  Speaker 3: leftist members of Congress there is. There have long been
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  Speaker 3: allegations and concerns that she committed immigration fraud. She was
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  Speaker 3: born in Somalia, grew up in Somalia, came to the
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  Speaker 3: United States as a minor. The bases for immigration fraud
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  Speaker 3: are threefold. Number one, her father came, he got a
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  Speaker 3: green card. She said on her application that she was
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  Speaker 3: 17 at the time he got a green card. Under
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  Speaker 3: immigration laws, if she was 17, she was entitled to
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  Speaker 3: a green card to become a citizen herself If she
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  Speaker 3: was 18, she was not. And so question number one
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  Speaker 3: was how old was she when she applied to be
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  Speaker 3: a citizen? There have been ongoing allegations that she lied
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  Speaker 3: about her age, that she was 18 and she lied
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  Speaker 3: about it and said she was 17. That's claim number one.
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  Speaker 3: A second claim deals with her name. And I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to read from you a story from the New York Post.
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  Speaker 3: Ilhan Omar is not the Minnesota Congresswoman's real name. Sources.
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  Speaker 3: Janine Pirro moved to keep the search warrant sealed as DNA, passport,
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  Speaker 3: and phone were seized in an October 12th raid. And
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  Speaker 3: here's what the New York Post writes. Ilhan Omar is
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  Speaker 3: not the real name of the Minnesota Congresswoman, Fox Digital
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  Speaker 3: News has learned. Her real name is Ilhan Noor Saeed Elmi,
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  Speaker 3: which for the record is pretty different from Omar. according
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  Speaker 3: to two people familiar with the ongoing investigation into the
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  Speaker 3: Somali-born congresswoman, including a law enforcement source. And if proven
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  Speaker 3: in court that Omar has lived her, quote, entire life
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  Speaker 3: under an alias, a former Minnesota federal immigration judge tells
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  Speaker 3: Fox News Digital that every single form she ever filled
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  Speaker 3: out could be, quote, called into question. On Wednesday, U.S.
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  Speaker 3: District Attorney for the District of Columbia, and actually that's
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  Speaker 3: not District Attorney, that's U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia,
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  Speaker 3: Janine Pirro, filed a motion seeking to prevent the federal
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  Speaker 3: search warrant for the congresswoman's home from being unsealed, which
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  Speaker 3: was requested by several media outlets. The motion says the
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  Speaker 3: federal government has not yet finished executing the search warrant
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  Speaker 3: and that it shouldn't be unsealed yet. Before the court
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  Speaker 3: of three applications to unseal ex parte materials and proceedings
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  Speaker 3: related to a federal search warrants for the personal residence
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  Speaker 3: in the District of Columbia of Congresswoman Ilhan Noor Saeed Elmi, a.k.a.
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  Speaker 3: Ilhan Abdullah Ahi Omar, the motion begins. That's not her
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  Speaker 3: real name, one real source said, when asked why the
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  Speaker 3: motion used the a.k.a. Ilhan Abdullah Omar language. After publication,
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  Speaker 3: a spokesperson from Omar's office said, provided a statement to
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  Speaker 3: Fox News Digital disputing the report. Quote, this is completely false.
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  Speaker 3: Ilhan Omar is a real name, the spokesperson said, followed
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  Speaker 3: by an attack on Fox News. Now, those are the
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  Speaker 3: two claims, but the claim that has been most persistent
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  Speaker 3: of immigration fraud was not that she lied about her age,
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  Speaker 3: although that's a real dispute. And it was not even
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  Speaker 3: that she lied about her name, although that is apparently
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  Speaker 3: a dispute now as well. The biggest allegation against Ilhan
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  Speaker 3: Omar is that her brother wanted to become a U.S.
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  Speaker 4: Citizen.
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  Speaker 3: And to help him become a U.S. citizen, Ilhan Omar
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  Speaker 3: married her brother. And because if a foreign national marries
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  Speaker 3: a U.S. citizen, you can get that foreign national green card,
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  Speaker 3: the act of marrying her brother helped her brother become
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  Speaker 3: a U.S. citizen. Now, that is a serious allegation of
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  Speaker 3: immigration fraud. If it was demonstrated, it would be a
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  Speaker 3: criminal offense. It could potentially support her denaturalization, the removal
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  Speaker 3: of her U.S. citizenship, and it could support her deportation.
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  Speaker 3: So it is serious. Now, Democrats are freaking out. How
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  Speaker 3: dare you hold Ilhan Omar to account? I want you
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  Speaker 3: to listen. So she did an interview on MSNOW, what
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  Speaker 3: used to be MSNBC, with Chris Hayes, very liberal host,
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  Speaker 3: smart guy, but very liberal host. And he asked her about, okay, look,
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  Speaker 3: was your first husband your brother? Now, by the way,
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  Speaker 3: was your first husband your brother? That ought to be
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  Speaker 3: a real easy answer, like hell no, is what most
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  Speaker 3: normal people would say. Give a listen to what Ilhan
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  Speaker 3: Omar said, and mind you, this is from a left-wing
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  Speaker 3: host on MSNOW.
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  Speaker 2: Who was this man that was your husband? When did
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  Speaker 2: they start saying that he was your brother?
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  Speaker 1: Why?
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  Speaker 2: I started with the Somali blog.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if it still exists, but somebody put
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  Speaker 3: in there that he had to have been my brother
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  Speaker 3: or something to that effect.
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  Speaker 2: You were not related to him at all.
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  Speaker 3: Not to my knowledge.
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  Speaker 2: Not to my knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: Senator, that is not a normal answer. Let's just be
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  Speaker 1: really clear.
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  Speaker 3: So, Benjamin Ferguson, I want to ask you on the record.
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  Speaker 3: I've never asked you this before. You're on Verdict. You're
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: on National Podcast and National Radio. Is Ana your sister?
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  Speaker 2: No, she is not.
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  Speaker 1: She is my wife.
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  Speaker 2: She is not my sister. We are not related. You're certain.
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  Speaker 4: I'm absolutely certain.
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  Speaker 2: You're certain.
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  Speaker 3: Your answer is not to my knowledge. Like, you may
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: have grown up with her and pulling her hair like
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: your whole childhood. By the way, Heidi was not your sister, right?
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  Speaker 3: Let's just be clear, right? She most definitely is not.
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  Speaker 3: She's a California girl who married into these crazy Cuban
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: Texan carnivores. She's a California vegetarian. She's most definitely not
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  Speaker 3: my sister. She's my best friend. She's the love of
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  Speaker 3: my life. But she is most assuredly not my sister.
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  Speaker 2: It's amazing how easy it was to answer those questions.
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  Speaker 3: I want everyone listening to this question. So look, we
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: have millions of listeners across the country. Some of y'all
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: are young. You're not married yet.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so fine.
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  Speaker 3: So don't answer this question. But many of you, my
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: guess is more than half of our listeners, I don't
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: know this because our listenership skews young, but I'm still
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: going to guess that more than half of our listeners
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: are in fact married. I want you to ask yourself,
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: if someone asked you, Is your wife your sister? If
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: someone asked you, is your husband your brother? In what
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  Speaker 3: universe would you answer, not to my knowledge? Like, is
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: that not a lawyerly, weaselly answer? And the Democrats are
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: freaking out. This is weaponization. This is persecution. They're going
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: after her. Look, let me be clear. If she is
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: innocent of these charges, then she should not be prosecuted.
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  Speaker 3: But if she's guilty, if she's committed immigration fraud, then
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: she should be held to account. Everyone should be held
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: to account regardless of their party. The Democrats hate that.
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  Speaker 3: That's what at stake here.
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  Speaker 1: As always, thank you for listening to Verdict with Senator
• 27:24
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• 27:26
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• 27:29
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• 27:31
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• 27:33
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  Speaker 1: And we will see you back here on Monday morning.