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Midterms in the Balance, Georgetown Freaks out at Hearing Evidence of Muslim Brotherhood Terrorism & Did Ilhan Omar Marry her Brother? · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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  Speaker 1: Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: It is Vertical Center. Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
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  Speaker 2: It's so nice to have you with us, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the show. And as a reminder, if you
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  Speaker 2: It will do that for you as well. All right, Senator,
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  Speaker 2: we got a lot to talk about. And the midterms
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  Speaker 2: are less than two weeks away now. Early voting has
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  Speaker 2: started for a large portion of the audience that's listening
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  Speaker 2: right now. And you are barnstorming the entire country. And
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  Speaker 2: I want to get your reaction to several different things,
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  Speaker 2: including enthusiasm that you're seeing out there.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we're in the final stretch. We are in early
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  Speaker 3: voting in a great many states, including Texas. We are
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  Speaker 3: just over a week away from Election Day. So this
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  Speaker 3: is it. Across the country, there are eight to ten
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  Speaker 3: Senate seats that are basically tied. that are within the
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  Speaker 3: margin of error. Now, we could have a really good night,
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  Speaker 3: a really bad night, or somewhere in between. All eight
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  Speaker 3: to ten of these seats are within a couple of points.
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  Speaker 3: And so, listen, what I am doing is I am
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  Speaker 3: spending every waking moment fighting to keep the Senate, ideally
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  Speaker 3: to grow our majority in the Senate, and to keep
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  Speaker 3: the House and grow our majority in the House. And so,
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  Speaker 3: a couple of days ago, I was in Alaska. We
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  Speaker 3: did four rallies in Alaska. We covered 1,100 miles in
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  Speaker 3: 24 hours. And by the way, Alaska, you've been to Alaska.
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  Speaker 3: It's extraordinary beauty, massive mountains. The wildlife is incredible. What
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  Speaker 3: I love the most, though, about Alaska is the people.
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  Speaker 3: The people in Alaska have this passionate independence and love
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  Speaker 3: for freedom. There's a lot of similarity between Alaskans and Texans.
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  Speaker 3: And I will say the way you campaign all over
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  Speaker 3: Alaska is you get in this tiny little prop plane.
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  Speaker 3: I've got a member of my staff who's a great guy.
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  Speaker 3: He's a terrific and dear friend, but he's a really
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  Speaker 3: nervous flyer. He doesn't like flying. He doesn't like flying
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  Speaker 3: in a big jet. And we're in this little prop plane.
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  Speaker 4: He really doesn't like puddle jumpers is what you're telling me.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm saying this prop plane, like the roof of it,
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  Speaker 3: was held together literally by duct tape.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Now, as a Texan, I think duct tape can fix
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  Speaker 3: just about anything. But I will tell you, Ben, and
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  Speaker 3: you'll appreciate this, you know this guy. I'm not going
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  Speaker 3: to name him, but he's a great guy who's a
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  Speaker 3: critical part of my political team. The way I try
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  Speaker 3: to help him through this, because he's literally white-knuckled and
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  Speaker 3: grabbing the seats and sweating, and he's got this whole
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  Speaker 3: playlist that he puts on his headphones, and he has
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  Speaker 3: a series of songs to calm himself.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And actually what I do is I just– I kid him.
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  Speaker 3: I make fun of him. That's not in a mean-spirited way.
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  Speaker 3: But I just crack jokes, and he's like trying to
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  Speaker 3: be like tough for me. But it ends up, to
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  Speaker 3: be honest, I mean I'm sure like there are going
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  Speaker 3: to be lefty people listening to this podcast and say, oh,
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  Speaker 3: what a jerk. You're like making fun of your staffer
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  Speaker 3: who's scared. But frankly, he starts laughing, and I make
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  Speaker 3: him talk, and I get him. And it relaxes him,
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  Speaker 3: and he ends up, he's not gripping the chairs because
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  Speaker 3: he's laughing so hard. And I sort of make fun
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  Speaker 3: if he needs a little pink hat like the protesters
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  Speaker 3: in D.C., if he's going to... And so Alaska was
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  Speaker 3: a couple of days ago. The next... Week and a
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  Speaker 3: couple of days. My current travel plan, I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: be in Georgia. I'm going to be in North Carolina,
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina, Michigan, Kansas, Iowa. I'm going to be in
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  Speaker 3: California to do Bill Maher. So I'm doing Bill Maher
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  Speaker 3: in about a week, which will be great.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. By the way, you had a great time with
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  Speaker 4: him last time.
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  Speaker 3: Bill Maher is awesome.
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  Speaker 2: He has really changed significantly. I actually enjoy seeing his
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  Speaker 2: commentaries come out every week now.
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  Speaker 3: So ironically, I don't think he's changed much at all.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's an old school liberal. What has changed
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  Speaker 3: is the world around him. So he's an old liberal,
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  Speaker 3: but he believes in things like free speech. He does
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  Speaker 3: not believe having radical Islamic terrorists running around America is
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  Speaker 3: a good thing. And his party's gone so crazy, he
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  Speaker 3: is actually aware there's a difference between men and women
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  Speaker 3: and boys and girls. All of those positions make him
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  Speaker 3: a heretic in his party because his party's gone bat
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  Speaker 3: crap crazy. And look, I did Bill Maher last year.
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  Speaker 3: It was really fun. I've retweeted Bill Maher's monologues and commentaries.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, at least a dozen times. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know who's more terrified about how much Bill and I agree,
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  Speaker 3: him or me. I think both of us are a
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  Speaker 3: little sort of disconcerted by the fact that we're on
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  Speaker 3: the same page. But I think the reason is the
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  Speaker 3: Democrat Party's gone to crazy town. And then I'm also
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  Speaker 3: going to be, I think I'm doing four or five
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  Speaker 3: events with Ken Paxton all over the state of Texas,
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  Speaker 3: really fighting to drive up turnout. President Trump is coming
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  Speaker 3: back to Texas. He's doing rallies in both Lubbock and
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  Speaker 3: Corpus Christi. I'm going to join the president of Air
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  Speaker 3: Force One, come to the rallies with him. So I'm
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  Speaker 3: doing everything I can to drive turnout in Texas as well.
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  Speaker 3: But listen, every one of these races is incredibly close
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  Speaker 3: and incredibly competitive.
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  Speaker 2: It really is incredibly competitive. And I want to get
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  Speaker 2: more into what this means for voter turnout and what
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  Speaker 2: into state by state, I think it's really important because
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  Speaker 2: people want to know where we are and where we
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  Speaker 2: are in different states.
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  Speaker 4: I want to get your overall thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: There was a lot of chatter online about people that
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  Speaker 2: were debating over, is it a good idea to vote.
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  Speaker 4: Early or not?
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  Speaker 2: I used to just love going on Election Day. I
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  Speaker 2: like that excitement. I have changed.
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  Speaker 4: I'm now an early vote guy. What are your thoughts?
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  Speaker 3: Look, it varies state by state. I will say in Texas,
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  Speaker 3: early voting is quite easy. So we have two weeks
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  Speaker 3: of early voting. It's in-person early voting. So you go
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  Speaker 3: to the poll place and you cast a vote. And
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  Speaker 3: I always vote early because in Texas, the lines are
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  Speaker 3: much shorter. You can usually vote pretty quickly. You can
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  Speaker 3: usually vote in just a few minutes. I will say
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  Speaker 3: I've already voted this year and the lines were really
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  Speaker 3: quite long. But look, I think getting your vote in early,
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  Speaker 3: if you can do it, is worth it. because that
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  Speaker 3: then gives you time to try to get other people
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  Speaker 3: to vote. And this is really a turnout election. And
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  Speaker 3: and so anything you can do to turn other people out,
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  Speaker 3: that's good, too.
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  Speaker 4: There are a lot of people that are worried.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people are looking at every state that's
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  Speaker 2: up in play right now. There's some states where usually
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  Speaker 2: Republicans win. You're going, wait, what's happening? There's other states
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  Speaker 2: where Democrats usually win.
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  Speaker 4: You're going, hold on. Some of those are in play.
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  Speaker 2: So let's take a moment, go state by state and
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  Speaker 2: give a rundown of where we are at the moment.
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  Speaker 3: So let me start with defense. In the Senate, Republican
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  Speaker 3: seats right now that we're defending, and there are a
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  Speaker 3: bunch of them that are vulnerable. As I mentioned, there
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  Speaker 3: are eight to ten seats that are basically tied. They're
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  Speaker 3: within the margin of error. So they're somewhere between plus
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  Speaker 3: three and minus three, and so they could go either way.
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  Speaker 3: The single most vulnerable Republican seat we have right now
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  Speaker 3: is North Carolina. Tom Tillis is the senator from North Carolina. Um,
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  Speaker 3: he is retiring. Michael Watley is running. I like Michael.
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  Speaker 3: He was the head of the RNC. I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: be headed to North Carolina to campaign with Michael. So
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  Speaker 3: I want him to win, but, but the poll numbers
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  Speaker 3: are rough in North Carolina. And, and, and that's of,
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  Speaker 3: of all the Republican currently held Republican seats, North Carolina
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  Speaker 3: has the roughest poll numbers. And, and so I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to be on the ground. I'm going to be fighting
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  Speaker 3: for him. I want him to win, but the Democrats
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  Speaker 3: recruited Roy Cooper, a relatively popular Democrat governor perceived as
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  Speaker 3: somewhat moderate. Cooper's a strong candidate. Whatley has not been
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  Speaker 3: elected statewide. And so that race is challenging. By the way,
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  Speaker 3: Cooper's greatest vulnerability is as governor, he pardoned and paroled
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  Speaker 3: a number of violent criminals, murderers, and many of them
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  Speaker 3: went out and committed serious crimes. I think that's probably
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  Speaker 3: the single best hit on him, that he released violent
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  Speaker 3: criminals that endangered the people of North Carolina. But in
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  Speaker 3: terms of where we're vulnerable, that's clearly the top of
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  Speaker 3: the list. After that, other states I'm worried about. Ohio,
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  Speaker 3: I'm very worried about. John Husted, my colleague, is a
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  Speaker 3: good guy. He is in a vicious fight with Sherrod Brown.
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  Speaker 3: Sherrod Brown had been the Democrat senator from Ohio. Ohio
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  Speaker 3: used to be a It was initially a purple state,
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  Speaker 3: then it was a reliably red state. It is right now,
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  Speaker 3: this is a very close and hotly contested race. There's
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  Speaker 3: hundreds of millions of dollars that have been spent on
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  Speaker 3: this race. I very much hope that Houston wins, but
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  Speaker 3: it could go either way. There's also a very hotly
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  Speaker 3: contested gubernatorial race with Vivek Ramaswamy. We could win them both,
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  Speaker 3: we could lose them both, but Ohio is a challenge.
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  Speaker 3: Next state that's a challenge is Alaska. That's why I
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  Speaker 3: was in Alaska just a couple of days ago. Alaska,
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  Speaker 3: there are several factors that make it close. One is
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  Speaker 3: Alaska foolishly adopted something called ranked choice voting. So the
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  Speaker 3: voters will have four names on the ballot. They won't
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  Speaker 3: just have two. It won't just be a Democrat and Republican,
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  Speaker 3: four names. And the way it works, it's just the
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  Speaker 3: top four finishers in the primary are And the Democrats
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  Speaker 3: are much better at political game playing than Republicans are.
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  Speaker 3: So in the Senate race, on the ballot, there are
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  Speaker 3: three Republicans and one Democrat. Now, by the way, that
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  Speaker 3: makes it easier for the Democrat to win when you've
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  Speaker 3: got three Republicans. In the governor's race in Alaska, there
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  Speaker 3: are three Republicans and one Democrat. Now, there used to
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  Speaker 3: be two Democrats, two Republicans, and then Chuck Schumer and
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  Speaker 3: the Democrats got one of the Democrats to drop out
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  Speaker 3: because they wanted to make it in balance. There's a
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  Speaker 3: second factor that makes Alaska particularly problematic, which is the
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  Speaker 3: Democrats recruited a guy named Dan Sullivan. Now, the incumbent senator,
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  Speaker 3: Dan Sullivan, is a really close friend of mine. Dan
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  Speaker 3: is one of my very closest friends in the Senate.
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  Speaker 3: He's a great guy. He's a Marine. I mean, he
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  Speaker 3: and I spent a lot of time together. And I've
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  Speaker 3: campaigned for Dan every time he's run for Senate. I
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  Speaker 3: campaigned for him in 2014 when he was first elected.
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  Speaker 3: I campaigned again for him in 2020 when he was reelected.
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  Speaker 3: And I just got back from campaigning for him now.
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  Speaker 3: There are six human beings in the state of Alaska
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  Speaker 3: named Dan Sullivan who are not the current incumbent senator.
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  Speaker 3: The Democrats found one of the six and propped him
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  Speaker 3: up as a candidate. So the ballot is literally going
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  Speaker 3: to have two people that say Dan Sullivan and republican
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  Speaker 3: dan sullivan.
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  Speaker 4: So how do you know which one is with.
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  Speaker 3: Fake okay so so the real one is dan s
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  Speaker 3: sullivan and it does say incumbent okay so the word
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  Speaker 3: incumbent is important but understand what the democrats did they
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  Speaker 3: recruited this guy and do you know who drafted the
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  Speaker 3: press release of the fake dan sullivan's campaign.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah by the way this is the most amazing part
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  Speaker 2: of this whole story keep going and tell everybody.
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  Speaker 3: It's the political consultant for the Democrat Mary Patola's campaign.
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  Speaker 3: So literally it's drafted by the Democrats. This is, this
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  Speaker 3: is completely, do you know that fake Dan was also
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  Speaker 3: a donor to the Democrat Mary Patola? He's given money
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  Speaker 3: to her and his daughter works for a Democratic Congresswoman
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  Speaker 3: in Washington state. So this guy is a Democrat who's
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  Speaker 3: pretending to be a Republican. And understand the cynicism of
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  Speaker 3: Chuck Schumer and the Democrats. They're counting on Alaskans to
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  Speaker 3: come in and some percentage of Alaskans to say, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I like Dan Sullivan. He's been a really good senator.
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  Speaker 3: He's a good guy. I want to vote for him.
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  Speaker 3: And some chunk of the voters will get confused and
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  Speaker 3: vote for fake Dan instead of real Dan. And they
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  Speaker 3: don't need a lot of them. They need two, three,
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  Speaker 3: four percent who get confused. And with ranked choice voting,
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  Speaker 3: if they end up voting, particularly if they bullet vote,
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  Speaker 3: they only vote for fake Dan. When fake Dan doesn't win,
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  Speaker 3: their votes get thrown out. And they could literally elect
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  Speaker 3: a Democrat, even though more than half of the voters
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  Speaker 3: wanted the Republican Dan Sullivan, because the Democrats are so cynical.
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  Speaker 3: They have so little respect for democracy. They want to
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  Speaker 3: deceive and steal the votes from the voters of Alaska.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is incredible to see it happening there. And
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  Speaker 2: like you said, in the way that you're describing it,
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  Speaker 2: in a very, very, very real way. And I think
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  Speaker 2: that is one of the things, as you said, the
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  Speaker 2: ranked choice voting, it's actually, by the way, on the
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  Speaker 2: ballot to get rid of it at the same time
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  Speaker 2: as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so vote yes on ballot proposition two to get
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  Speaker 3: rid of ranked choice voting. All right, so I'm worried
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  Speaker 3: about North Carolina. I'm worried about Ohio. I'm worried about Alaska.
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  Speaker 3: I'm worried about Texas. Texas is a tie right now.
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  Speaker 3: It is a dead heat. If you're in Texas, come
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  Speaker 3: out and vote. Please, please, please, and get others to
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  Speaker 3: come out and vote. I'm worried about Maine. Susan Collins
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  Speaker 3: is an incredibly effective politician. She outkicks her coverage routinely,
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  Speaker 3: but Maine is a very blue state, and they do
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  Speaker 3: not like Donald Trump. I'm worried about Kansas. Kansas is
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  Speaker 3: a rough race right now. There are a lot of
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  Speaker 3: farmers who are unhappy. That's neck and neck. I think
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  Speaker 3: Roger Marshall will win. I'm going to campaign for him.
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  Speaker 3: I'm worried about Iowa. I'm going to be campaigning in Iowa.
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  Speaker 3: Ashley Hinson is a great candidate, but that is a
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  Speaker 3: close race. And then we also have some pickup opportunities
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  Speaker 3: that I'll mention and discuss in a moment.
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  Speaker 3: So we have four meaningful pickup opportunities that are Democrat
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  Speaker 3: to be in Michigan in the next few days. I'm
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: going to campaign. I'm going to barnstorm the state with
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: Mike Rogers, who's the Republican nominee. We've got a real
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: shot at winning Michigan. Now, we might lose. I mean, look,
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: it's not a slam dunk. This race is really close.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: But if I were to pick one state where we
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: have a pickup, it would be Michigan. It's at the
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: very top of my list because Abdul Al-Sayed is so
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: radical and so dangerous. The number two state for a
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: Republican pickup is New Hampshire. You've got John Sununu running.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: Sununu is a strong candidate. He's a former senator from
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: New Hampshire. New Hampshire is a state that has voted Republicans,
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: has a Republican governor right now, Kelly Ayotte, my former
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: colleague in the Senate. We could win that. But it
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: is a rough environment, so it is certainly not a
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: given that we win New Hampshire, but New Hampshire, we
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: could win as well. Third, I would say, is Minnesota. Now,
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: some people may say, Minnesota, that's a bunch of blue,
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: blue lefty Democrats. Look, Trump lost Minnesota by one point. Yes, Minneapolis-St.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: Paul is very blue, but the rest of the state,
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: there are a lot of ag and rural voters there
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: who are quite conservative. And Michelle Tafoya, the Republican nominee,
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: has been a very strong nominee. And the Democrat nominee,
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: the lieutenant government, is this woke, hardcore lefty Peggy Flanagan.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: And you do have the fraud scandal there of $ 9
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: billion stolen from Minnesota taxpayers and sent to Somalia, including
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: hundreds of millions sent to al-Shabaab, the radical Islamic terrorist
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: group in Somalia. Right now, the polling, most of the
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: polling shows Tafoya, the Republican, down maybe one or two points.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: But that's a really close race. And so that could be,
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Minnesota could be a surprise win on Election Day. And
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: the final pickup opportunity is Georgia. Georgia ought to be,
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: coming into this election, everyone thought Georgia was going to
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: be the number one pickup opportunity. because it's a red state.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: I still think Georgia is fundamentally a red state. John
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Ossoff is the senator in the Senate who is most
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: out of step with the voters in his state. He
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: votes like Chuck Schumer. He votes hard left. That being said,
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: the polling in Georgia is looking rough. I'm going to
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: go to Georgia and be campaigning. I want us to
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: win Georgia. We could win Georgia, but of the pickup opportunities,
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: it's clearly number four. That being said, if we lose
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: a couple and win a couple, that'd be great. That
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: would keep us the majority. I don't want to lose any,
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: to be clear. I don't want any of my colleagues
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: to go away. And if I could pick two races
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: that I got to pick the outcome for, it would
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: be Texas and Michigan, that I want Ken Paxton and
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Mike Rogers to win. And Especially I want James Tallarico
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: and Abdul Al-Sayed to lose because I think they're both
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: incredibly dangerous radical candidates.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: By the way, you say that, why? And explain that
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: real quick. I think part of it is a national
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: security issue.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: So Tallarico is a woke social justice warrior who says
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: God is non-binary. He says there are six different genders.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: He says we should put a welcome mat on our
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: southern border to welcome illegal immigrants into this country. He
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: says he wants to, quote, dismantle capitalism. This is who
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: Tallarico is and what he believes. In Michigan, Abdul Al-Sayed,
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: I believe, has deep and very significant connections to the
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Muslim Brotherhood. And we did a pod last week. If
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: you didn't listen to it, you ought to go back
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: and listen to last week's pod laying out Abdul Al-Sayed's
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: connections to the Muslim Brotherhood because I think that they
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: pose an acute security risk. Now, I will say... That
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: actually leads to another story that we wanted to cover
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: in the pod, which is my deputy chief counsel is
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: a woman named Ariel Azaraj. She's fantastic. She's a lawyer.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: She's smart. She's principled. She has been incredibly active in litigating,
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: number one, on behalf of victims of October 7th and
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: the terror attack that happened in Israel. But also going
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: after the Muslim Brotherhood. You want to talk about she
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: is a knife fighter in terms of targeting the terrorists
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: and going after. And she's on my team, a very
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: valuable member of my team. She is a graduate from
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: Georgetown Law School. And so this past week, she was
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: back at Georgetown and gave a speech. Gave a speech
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: about the Muslim Brotherhood. She walked through all of the
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: overwhelming evidence of the terrorist attack the Muslim Brotherhood has
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: put forward. their attempts to undermine American democracy, their attempts
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: to kill Americans. And I will say her speech, which
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: was a very academic speech, it was factually based, it was,
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: here is the evidence of terrorist activities. The response from Georgetown.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: So the Georgetown student government in the law school released
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: a resolution attacking her, attacking her by name. and blasting her,
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: and they said that her comments were, quote, hate speech
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: and Islamophobic, and they were demanding that the university silence
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: the speech. It's really tragic to see what happened at Georgetown,
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: and I will say, I sent a tweet, that I'm
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: just going to read the tweet, because I was really
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: dismayed to see Georgetown Law School attacking Ariel, And so
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: here's what I tweeted. I'm going to quote. Georgetown Law's
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: student government is attacking my deputy chief counsel, Ariel Azarod,
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: for detailing the evidence about the Muslim Brotherhood. I'm proud
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: of her for speaking the truth. These woke children expect
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: indoctrination rather than actual education. Their hysterical declaration contains no facts.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: Here are the actual facts. The Muslim Brotherhood is a
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: terrorist organization. Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE have all banned, designated,
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: or imposed restrictions on the Muslim Brotherhood for terrorism. What
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: does it say that Georgetown Law is more embracing of
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: Muslim Brotherhood terrorism than our Arab Middle East nations? Hamas
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: is a Muslim Brotherhood branch and is responsible for the
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: greatest single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. A federal
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: jury convicted the Holy Land Foundation and five of its
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: leaders on 108 counts. And the Holy Land Foundation provided
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: $ 12. 4 million in support to Hamas. Federal prosecutors named Kerr
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: an unindicted co-conspirator. I chaired a hearing in August in
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: which lead investigators testified about the evidence in that case
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: that included wiretaps, internal memos, and meeting transcripts. Calling evidence
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: quote-unquote hate speech, trying to censor it, and trying to
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: cancel opponents doesn't change facts. And on that note, my
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: staff and I are not going to apologize for educating
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: people about those facts. If Georgetown were doing its job,
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: instead of sucking up Qatari money, it would be too.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great way of putting it. And I wonder,
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: what do you think?
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: Will they respond?
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: I don't think they will. I talked to Ariel today.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: I called her because, look, I mean, she's a lawyer.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: She's a staffer. She's not used to being publicly blasted
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: in this way, and I called her today. I just
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: called her and said, hey, how are you doing? And listen,
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: it's tough. I entered this world. I get, you know,
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: 100 people or 1,000 people slamming the crap out of
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: me every day, and I made the choice to do this.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: By the way, you did too, Ben. You get people
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: attacking you on CNN. You're like, You've made the decision
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: to enter this. She's working in the Senate as staff.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: This is a new thing for her to be blasted.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: And so I just called and said, hey, how are
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: you doing? Now, this woman, she's smart. She's savvy. She's tough.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: She's a knife fighter. She said, I'm doing great. And
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: she said, I actually view it as a badge of honor.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: And I said, look, I want you to hear, Ariel,
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: I'm proud of you. And it is a badge of honor.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: If they're not shooting at you, you're not doing much
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: of anything. And so you went. and spoke the truth.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: And I said, I'm happy to lean in and fight
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: back any way I can, because it's, but she's, look,
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: it is indicative. These are the same forces that are
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: trying to prop up Abdul Al-Sayed, trying to apologize for
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: the Muslim Brotherhood that want to see Islamists take over
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: the Democrat Party. And you know what? We're going to
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: fight back on that.
• 27:48
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• 27:52
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• 28:00
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• 28:03
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• 28:51
  Speaker 2: get back to, again, one of the really interesting stories
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: of the week dealt with one of the members of
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: the squad, one of the most radical leftists.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: In Congress, Alam Omar.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: That might not even be her real name. And yeah,
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: so we don't know exactly how old she is. We
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: don't know what her name is. And we're not sure
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: if she did or didn't apparently possibly marry her brother.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: And we know that she's under a major investigation.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Well, in this past week, the Department of Justice executed
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: a search warrant on Ilhan Omar's home. She is a
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: congresswoman from Minnesota. She is one of the most radical,
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: noxious people Marxist, Islamist, leftist members of Congress, there is.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: There have long been allegations and concerns that she committed
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: immigration fraud. She was born in Somalia, grew up in Somalia,
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: came to the United States as a minor. The bases
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: for immigration fraud are threefold. Number one, her father came.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: He got a green card. She said on her application
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: that she was 17 at the time he got a
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: green card. Under immigration laws, if she was 17, she
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: was entitled to a green card to become a citizen herself.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: If she was 18, she was not. And so question
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: number one was how old was she when she applied
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: to be a citizen? There have been ongoing allegations that
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: she lied about her age, that she was 18 and
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: she lied about it and said she was 17. That's
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: claim number one. A second claim deals with her name,
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: and I'm going to read from you a story from
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: the New York Post. Ilhan Omar is not the Minnesota
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Congresswoman's real name. Sources. Janine Pirro moved to keep the
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: search warrant sealed as DNA, passport, and phone were seized
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: in an October 12th raid. And here's what the New
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: York Post writes. Ilhan Omar is not the real name
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: of the Minnesota congresswoman, Fox Digital News has learned. Her
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: real name is Ilhan Noor Saeed Elmi, which, for the record,
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: is pretty different from Omar. According to two people familiar
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: with the ongoing investigation into the Somali-born congresswoman, including a
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: law enforcement source, and if proven in court, that Omar
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: has lived her, quote, entire life under an alias. A
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: former Minnesota federal immigration judge tells Fox News Digital that
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: every single form she ever filled out could be, quote,
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: called into question. On Wednesday, U.S. District Attorney for the
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: District of Columbia, and actually that's not District Attorney, that's U.S.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: Attorney for the District of Columbia, Janine Pirro, filed a motion,
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: seeking to prevent the federal search warrant for the Congresswoman's
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: home from being unsealed, which was requested by several media outlets.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: The motion says the federal government has not yet finished
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: executing the search warrant and that it shouldn't be unsealed yet.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: Before the court of three applications to unseal ex parte
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: materials and proceedings related to a federal search warrant for
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: the personal residence in the District of Columbia of Congresswoman
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: Ilhan Noor Saeed Elmi, a.k.a. Ilhan Abdullah Ahi Omar, the
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: motion begins. That's not her real name, one real source
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: said when asked why the motion used the aka Ilhan
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: Abdulli Omar language. After publication, a spokesperson from Omar's office
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: provided a statement to Fox News Digital disputing the report. Quote,
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: this is completely false. Ilhan Omar is a real name,
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: the The claim that has been most persistent of immigration
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: fraud was not that she lied about her age, although
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: that's a real dispute. And it was not even that
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: she lied about her name, although that is apparently a
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: dispute now as well. The biggest allegation against Ilhan Omar
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: is that her brother wanted to become a U.S.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Citizen.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: And to help him become a U.S. citizen, Ilhan Omar
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: married her brother. and because if a foreign national marries
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: a U.S. citizen, you can get that foreign national green card,
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: the act of marrying her brother helped her brother become
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: a U.S. citizen. Now, that is a serious allegation of
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: immigration fraud. If it was demonstrated, it would be a
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: criminal offense. It could potentially support her denaturalization, the removal
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: of her U.S. citizenship, and it could support her deportation,
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: so it is serious. Now, Democrats are freaking out. How
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: dare you hold Ilhan Omar to account? I want you
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: to listen. So she did an interview on MSNOW, what
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: used to be MSNBC, with Chris Hayes, very liberal host,
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: smart guy, but very liberal host. And he asked her about, okay, look,
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: was your first husband your brother? Now, by the way,
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: was your first husband your brother? That ought to be
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: a real easy answer, like hell no. is what most
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: normal people would say. Give a listen to what Ilhan
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: Omar said, and mind you, this is from a left-wing
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: host on MSNOW.
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: Who was this man that was your husband?
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: When did they start saying that he was your brother?
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Why? It started with the Somali blog. I don't know
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: if it still exists, but somebody put in there that
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: he had to have been my brother or something to
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: that effect. You were not related to him at all?
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: Not to my knowledge.
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: Not to my knowledge. Senator, that is not a normal answer.
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: Let's just be really clear.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: So, Benjamin Ferguson, I want to ask you on the record.
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: I've never asked you this before. You're on Verdict. You're
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: on National Podcast and National Radio. Is Ana your sister?
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: No, she is not. She is my wife. She is
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: not my sister. We are not related. You're certain. I'm
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: absolutely certain. You're certain.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: Your answer is not to my knowledge. Like, you may
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: have grown up with her and pulling her hair like
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: your whole childhood. Like... Heidi, by the.
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: Way, Heidi was not your sister, right?
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: What kind of freak answers.
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: Let's just be clear, right? Heidi was not your.
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: Oh, she most definitely is not. She's a California girl
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: who married into these crazy Cuban Texan, like, carnivores. She's
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: a California vegetarian. Like, like, She's most definitely not my sister.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: She's my best friend. She's the love of my life.
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: But she is most assuredly not my sister.
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: Who can't answer? It's amazing how easy it was to
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: answer those questions.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: I want everyone listening to this question. So look, we
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: have millions of listeners across the country. Some of y'all
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: are young. You're not married yet. Okay, so fine. So
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: don't answer this question. But many of you, my guess
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: is more than half of our listeners, I don't know
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: this because our listenership skews young. But I'm still going
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: to guess that more than half of our listeners are
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: in fact married. I want you to ask yourself, if
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: someone asked you, is your wife your sister? If someone
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: asked you, is your husband your brother? In what universe
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: would you answer, not to my knowledge? Yeah. Like, is
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: that not a lawyerly, weaselly answer? And the Democrats are
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: freaking out. This is weaponization. This is persecution. They're going
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: after her.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Look.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: Let me be clear. If she is innocent of these charges,
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: then she should not be prosecuted. But if she's guilty,
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: if she's committed immigration fraud, then she should be held
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: to account. Everyone should be held to account regardless of
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: their party. The Democrats hate that. That's what at stake here.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Amen.
• 36:52
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