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Donald Trump Today 6/5/24 · Gil I Am

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Dana. Five months from today, I said, five months for today America
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elections. It's next president. And today we unveil a new way to track
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what America cares about. And we're going to do it in a kind of
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a different way. It's called our Issues Track. We're going to explain it
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right now. Okay, So we introduced it the following way. On the
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left, you got Joe Biden and blue. On the right, you've got
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Donald Trump and red. In the middle, you've got margin of air,
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meaning that a particular issue could go either way, but it's too close to
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car right, So here we go. Why do these issues matter? Right?
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They define elections way back in nineteen eighty four. Is about the economy
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and Reaganomics and Ronald Reagan one twelve years later in nineteen ninety six is about
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deficits and welfare spending and the size of government, and Bill Clinton won two
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thousand and four. Is about terrorism and national security. George Bush won his
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second term likewise for Barack Obama and Obamacare in twenty twelve. So that brings
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us now to twenty twenty four. What does America care about and who do
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they believe does a better job when it comes down to the issues. All
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right, So here we go. Now there's a lot on this screen.
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Okay, I want you to think about three things. Number One, for
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Joe Biden on the left here in blue, honesty he rates fifteen points higher
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than Donald Trump, abortion, twelve points higher. Temperament slightly less than double
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digits at nine points. There for Donald Trump, where does he rate the
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highest? Come over here now, twenty one points on age. They see
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Trump younger, they see him with greater energy, they see him with greater
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vibrancy. On the border, up eighteen points, all right, on the
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economy, up fifteen points. On accomplishments, he's at nine points. What
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does all this mean now, Okay, Well, we're going to find out
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November. We'll also track this by the month to try and figure out whether
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not Americans are moving one direction or the other based on the issues that they
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believe are the most important. Come of November, and the middle values is
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a toss up bride here, so we'll track that also. Now, if
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you look at our forecast for the moment, there are four states behind me
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and yellow. We believe these are the toss up states hous of now you
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all know about them. Right, Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.
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I will say that we will watch these four states very carefully, but
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come back to the map here for a moment. Leaning them all right,
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You're going to hear a lot about Minnesota and a lot about Michigan leaning Republican.
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You're going to hear a ton about Georgia, and a ton about North
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Carolina. But right now, these states we consider too close to call.
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All right, So you got the issues, you got the states, you
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got this electoral battle that's going to be fought now five months from the day.
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Let's move on back over here. We'll analyze this and see what we
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can see what we can glean in between the law and it'll bill and a
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way to set up. We have Kelle mcnenny cos about number here to help
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talk about it. And I think that our team has put together something that's
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super useful because Kayla, you can look here on call for one is the
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power ranking tossups of Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. These are
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the pure tossups, right, so we're all going to be talking a lot
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about these places. But then with this added layer of the issues tracker called
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four number four. If you look here, this just helps you understand where
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are people feeling, like, what issues matter the most? And I feel
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like this adds a layer of importance and complexity to what is a key election
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mictric. Without a doubt, I mean, this is I think the only
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tracker of its kind currently and fascinating because what you see is President Trump leading
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on the issues that matter to American vice the economy, immigration, and just
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to underscore immigration in particular, Gallup looked at the last three months and the
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top issue Gallup issues of importance was immigration. They said, in the twenty
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four year history of taking this poll, immigration has never led for three months
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straight. Now it was knocked down to number two and the latest issues of
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importance. But it just underscores what we're seeing in our own Fox News analysis.
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Immigration's huge, economy is huge. Trump is leading on both. Yeah,
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there's a reason why you're doing an executive order twenty threes days away from
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debate number one. Okay, another topic here. At a fundraiser in Greenwish,
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connetic the President said this, for the first time in American history,
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a former president that is a convicted felon is now seeking the office the presidency.
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Then he says, something snapped in this guy for real after twenty twenty.
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It's literally driving him crazy. When I read this, I believe these
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were prepared remarks. Yes, these weren't just off the coff So this was
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done with intent. And just quickly show the fundraising numbers for May one hundred
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and forty one for Trump. We don't yet have the DNC and the Biden
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numbers. When we get them, we'll share them with you. So quickly
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on the fundraising. The fifty three million that was pulled in in the twenty
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four hours after the guilty verdict. To put this into context, that's more
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than Biden and the DNC raised in all of April. To put this in
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the context, the highest fundraising day for Act Blue in twenty twenty two with
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the Dobbs decision, that was less than half of what Trump raised twenty four
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hours. That was twenty million dollars. Kamala Harris when she was named vice
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president four years ago twenty six million was brought in. So this is a
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huge, huge number. But to Biden in those remarks, it was closed
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door and I'm going to be fascinated if he takes a lean in or stay
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out approach. Campaigns leaning in, there's no doubt they fundraise off of convicted
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felon. But Biden did this behind closed doors. Will he debut this argument
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in front of cameras or will he leave that to his campaign operation save his
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doors, his remarks for closed door fundraising? What will he do on the
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debate stage? I think the stayout approach is better. He takes the high
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road. In his view, the high road campaign goes after all? Right,
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Kayley, love having you, Thank you, Thank you so much of
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YouTube page to catch our hottest interviews and most compelling analysis. Man, are
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you supporting the Center of Independent New Jersey? Look? The primary is today?
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Not even going to comment at this point leadership work. Don you think
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that Democrats have a problem with the southern border and messaging? Ahead of twenty
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twenty four. I mean, Republicans have said that this is basically a charade
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by the Bide administration, this executive action. Look, the bottom line is
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that we all know what happened. Democrats supported a strong bipartisan bill. Republicans
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initially said this a very strong good bill, and then they turned around one
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hundred and eighty degrees when Donald Trump was very explicit he wanted the bill to
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fail to create chaos at the borders. Our preference is to have the Republicans
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join with us and support a strong bipartisan piece of legislation. Yes, after
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the Trump guilty verdict of Manhattan, some of your Republican colleagues are for around
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terms like kangaroo court, weaponization of justice. Just do you have any concerns
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about what things will look like after the election from other people who'll accept the
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results of the election. Look, it was the jury has spoken in a
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process that jurors used throughout America, and Donald Trump has proven to be a
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felon, a convicted felon. Yes, Supreme work film I'm talking to.
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Look. First, Justice Roberts has been, in my opinion, not lived
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up to his responsibilities as Chief Justice. On issue after issue, He's supposed
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to be the guardian of the Court's fairness and opinion, but on something near
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and dear to me, which is forum shopping, on ethics, on recusal.
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So Senator Durbin and I in the judiciary of this committee, are discussing
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the best ways to move forward. Yes, are you going to try to
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meet with Speaker Johnson and try to negotiate some type of deal on border legislation.
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Look, as I said, the Republicans turned down by part is in
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border legislation that they had already agreed to. They are to change their minds
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and support our bill. If not. President Biden has moved forward because he
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prefers legislation. We prefer a legislation. The Republicans are blocking it, and
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so Biden is moving forward. Yes, look, I support the tax Kurt
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bill. It has a lot of good things in it. But we right
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now Senator crete Bow and a lot of the Republicans are opposing it. We
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hope they'll change their minds. Thank you everybody in the States. Hunter Biden
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remains in court multiple charges, all in and around a gun that he should
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have admitted that he was not supposed to have. Why because of a series
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of mental health issues that came as a result of drug abuse. But you
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may remember that at the height of the twenty twenty election, we were not
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allowed, allegedly to tell you about the existence of a laptop one that apparently
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had been left by Hunter Biden that explained not just his drug use but also
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you know, the big guy, all the payments and the rest of it.
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It was referred at the time by intelligence officials as Russian disinformation. Well
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guess what was produced today literally as evidence in the case against Hunter Biden in
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court. Yep, the laptop that apparently never existed. Opening Stevens today in
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the trial of President Biden's son Hunter on federal gun charges, the prosecution telling
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jurors he lied about his drug use on a government background check to buy a
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gun, and they introduced evidence from his laptop. You mean it was always
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true, Weld on the Miranda Devine and the New York Post who never never
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gave up on the reality of that laptop. Funnily enough, though, the
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other evidence it's on the laptop not to be used for anything, just this
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one thing in relation to the gun charge. As for the fight between Hunter's
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father and Donald Trump for the presidency, coming up in November. The next
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big event is going to be the debate, which will take place towards the
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end of this this month. It'll be on CNN for coverage here in the
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lead up and post here on Sky News. I wanted to show you the
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latest polls though. These are the ones that have happened after the court case.
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But there are not many that have happened after the court case, So
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these numbers may bounce around. But Trump nationally forty one thirty nine, and
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because Kennedy is writing at the best part of ten percent, there has not
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been a big change in the overall mix. Remember that's the national picture of
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fifty states. Well, what about the seven states that most matter? Again,
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the most recent poll these that have been dated in the past seven days.
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So Trump winning in Arizona, in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North
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Carolina, and Georgia. If that all comes true, he gets to two
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seventy votes, nice and easy. Nevada, which previously people had said was
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in Trump's column by five points, is now back to a tie. Now
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Wisconsin would be expected to go back to a tie as well, so it
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is getting tighter. But if the numbers aren't moving even after the court case.
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That will be fascinating to see. Independents, however, have said supposedly
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by a significant number of about six out of ten, that they would think
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very strongly about voting for Biden because Trump is now a convicted felon. Of
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course, he will hope to appeal that, but that will not be done
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before the next election. But perhaps the reason why the number is not really
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moving back Biden's way is because of what is the top issue for voters.
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Well, of course it's course of blooming and the economy. But the number
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two and clearly number two issue that is driving people all around the country is
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it was just one percent of voters who said that it ranked fifteenth on the
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list of most important problems in the United States. Look at where we are
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today May of twenty twenty four, the last Paul Conductor by galp it's up
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to eighteen percent. And who do they trust on the issue? Because back
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in June of twenty twenty Biden was actually trusted more on the question of border
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security and immigration by a single point. Look at where we are in May
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of twenty twenty four. My goodness, gracious, look at this huge jump
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that Donald Trump has gotten. He is now ahead on this issue by twenty
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seven percentage points. So it's not just that immigration is more at the top
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of voter's minds than it was four years ago. It's that who they trust
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on the issue has trained tremendously. So Joe Biden today I picked up the
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same pen that he used to reverse many of the Trump border decisions and put
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many of them back, not all of them back. And apparently, of
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course it will only kicking win. Two and a half thousand people have passed
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eight and every day. That means nine hundred and twelve and a half thousand
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people will be allowed to cross the border, and then his rules will kick
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in, something that reporters who've been watching the southern border for years say is
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going to be a problem. You have to focus on the true details here.
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Yes, he is going to limit and restrict asylum to some people who
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cross the border illegally in between ports of entry, but he's I'm going to
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continue bringing in tens of thousands of migrants per month using this CBP one app
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and flying them into the country via these parole flights. So the illegal crossing
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numbers may go down a little bit, but he's bringing more people into the
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country through quote unquote lawful pathways, which are just programs he's created at the
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executive level. Guys. So he says he'll slam the door if on anyone
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die two and a half thousand people cross the border illegally, that of course
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will turn out to be three point six medium people should he be re elected
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over the next four years. And he's scullping it from the lift, who
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of course the weakest part of the Democratic vice at the moment, because of
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what's happening in Gaza. He's going Trump. I think the President could have
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handled this differently. I've told him that directly, and I think that we
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have to lean in as Democrats to an inclusive vision of immigration, and we
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really have to make continue to point out all the differences that we have with
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Donald Trump, who is theenophobic racist, has said terrible things about immigrants.
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I know that is not who President Biden is, but using the same tools
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that Donald Trump used is actually a big problem for Democrats to be able to
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continue to show those differences and keep our base with us nothing to say here.
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Donald Trump is officially a convicted felon, and while the possibility of jail
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time would scare most people. This conviction could turn out to be the best
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thing to happen to Donald Trump's election chances. Sky News All Stars reader Panehee,
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James Morrow, and Denika Di Giorgio take a look at whether Donald Trump's
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conviction has helped or hindered his presidential campaign. Donald Trump has had an eventful
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week, even by Trumps standards. He was found guilty of all thirty four
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felony counts in his hush money trial by a New York City jury, with
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his sentence to be handed down on June eleven. But instead of scaring his
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loyal fan base off, the latest hurtle has only galvanized them, strengthening their
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resolve to get Trump into the White House, which is making Democrats very nervous.
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Eric Trump revealed that the campaign received over two hundred million dollars in donations
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since the conviction was handed down. This might be a little inside information,
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but as I was leaving my house about thirty seven seconds ago, I asked
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my wife what are we up to now? And she said, just in
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terms of small dollar were well over seventy million dollars. This is twenty one
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dollar donations forty three dollars donations, right, small dollar donations. If you
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add the large dollar donations to it, you're over two hundred million. But
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you're over seventy million dollars. And by the way, Maria, thirty percent
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of those people had never been seen before by a political already. Right.
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I mean, these are Americans who are pissed off. They're coming out of
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the woodwork, and they want to support a guy that they just believe is
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getting bamboozled by a system. And we saw it with impeachment one, we
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saw it with impeachment two. We see it where they weaponize every liberal DA
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and AG across the country with one intent to take him down, to slander
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him, to ruin his reputation, to try and divide his family, to
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try and bankrupt him, to throw him in jail, to do whatever the
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hell they can do. And America sees through it. They know exactly what's
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going on. In addition to the monetary support, Donald Trump was given a
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rock star reception at the UFC over the weekend, further cementing the reality that
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his fans aren't going anywhere. Reveals Sky News ulstar de Nika de Giorgio,
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but it's quite interesting to see now how America has been reacting to this verdict.
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Now, Donald Trump, this afternoon he went to a UFC fight.
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Just have a look at the reception that he got. He's in the building,
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in the born of presence, any extending o versial ways, the realm
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of applies he's getting right now. It's pretty staggering. And you had to
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have imagined that's all was going to happen. Now that is an entire arena
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full of people all giving Donald Trump a standing ovation, and it makes you
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think he's always had an ironclad base, James, we know this. His
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supporters have stood by him from the very beginning all of his legal battles.
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They've said nothing more than a witch hunt. But that in itself just proves
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I haven't deserted him despite this conviction. That they are rooting for him no
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matter what. And the reason they're rooting for him is because they know that
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they are the kind of people the Democrats despise, and they understand the attack
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on Trump is not so much an attack on Trump, it's an attack on
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Middle America, whom the Democrats hate. And so that's why they're for Trump,
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regardless of what you think about Trump. He's crasts, he's boorish,
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he's all of those things. But he represents the average American whom we know
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the Democrats just despise. This was again seen at the Bronx rally, where
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tens of thousands of ordinary blue state New Yorkers came out to proudly support Trump,
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says Sky News all star James Morrow. But also last week we did
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see the extraordinary scenes out of the Bronx where Donald Trump went and tens of
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thousands of people, ordinary New Yorkers, you know, black, Hispanics agents
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showed up in their numbers to support Trump. So is there a chance that
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maybe part of New York is actually on Trump's side here in this one?
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Well, absolutely. I grew up in South Brooklyn, that's a very red
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Republican area. I grew up in a very immigrant heavy area. Immigrants tend
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to be conservatives. So these are absolutely New York voters who are voting for
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Trump. And he got a large you know, even when you just look
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at the numbers, he got like thirty percent of the vote in New York
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last time, maybe a little bit higher than that. And that's a significant
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number of people even though obviously that doesn't I knew the state, so it
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becomes interesting to watch what he ended up doing in the Bronx and how many
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people did show up for him. The real interesting thing to me there isn't
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that there's so many people voting for Trump again, I think just numbers wise,
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they were always Trump voters in New York. We just don't really hear
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from them. The thing was that they were doing it in public, with
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the Maga hat on in the Bronx saying, I don't care who recognizes me,
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I don't care who goes to my boss, I don't care which Karen
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sees me on TV. I'm going to support this man. So it's a
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bit that was very encouraging to see that they weren't afraid anymore. And Scott
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News Allstar and Realise Nielsen agrees, saying that conviction has only strengthened Republican love
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for Trump whilst also strengthening Democratic hate for the former president in America Right now,
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are people really believing that this case on esoteric bookkeeping charges would have been
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brought had the defendant's name not been Donald J. Trump candidate for president?
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Don't forget as well before this. His predecessor wouldn't bring this case, and
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they had to pick up a bit of novel law that hasn't been used before.
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So it's a bit of an interpretation there to say that they just followed
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the law. No, they really worked at getting this done, which is
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their right as a prosecutor. Sure, these are laws that are on the
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books, but they had to try something new to get this done. And
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so I think a lot of people across America, and the polls are reflecting
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this, aren't convinced that they have changed their mind because of this. So
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what we're seeing is people who were voting Republican anyway are now more supportive of
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Donald Trump. People who were voting Democrat anyway more hated even more than they
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did before. And so really there's just the small fraction of independent voters and
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there's still not a clear cut decision of how this is going to impact them
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down the road. And I think too, we're talking about just being five
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months out away from the election, but that's a long time for the rest
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of the world who doesn't follow politics day today, who have very cemented ideas
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about both of the leaders, whether they like them or not. Is one
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thing but people have their opinions of them. Is the set is the real
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point be looked at here? Former Trump senior advisor Christian Whiteon ads even black
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and Latino voters have sympathy for Trump after seeing the weaponization of the legal system
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against him. Do you think that voters though, I mean in the Trump
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camp and their discussions about going forward this badge, they're going to hang this?
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You know, Donald Trump is a felon badge on the former president as
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he campaigns now, clearly he doesn't think this is going to hurt him,
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and in fact it may help him. But is there a danger at all
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that some people will look at this and say, well, Trump's got these
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troubles. Biden is a mess for a whole number of other reasons, but
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we're just going to wind up staying home. Is there a turnout issue that
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you're concerned about here? An enthusiasm gap, not an enthusiasm gap. There
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were polls that were taken sort of generically before if there were a candidate who
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were convicted felon, would you be less likely to vote for him? And
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more? And people did say yes, they would be less likely to vote.
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However, now that you're into a specific case of Trump being convicted of
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these very difficult to understand fraud charges convictions. Now, I don't think you'll
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have that effect, and in fact, the base, I think will be
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very, very fired up, and also the new voters that Donald Trump has
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had success in bringing into the Republican fold, especially Blacks and Latinos. Certainly
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within the black community, there is a current of injustice and of reaction to
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that, and in that case, you may have more black sympathy for Donald
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Trump and seeing that he has been persecuted and had the judicial system used against
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him. Even the Biden administration strategy of rolling out star power is working against
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them. Following Hollywood actor Robert de Niro's unhinged outburst outside the court in New
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York City, says sky News all Star Rita Panihy, My word, we
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had a lefty loser in spectacular fashion outside of Manhattan court room this week,
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just a couple of days before the verdict in the third world style Banana Republic
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Trump Show trial. Yes, there is our broken old lefty wearing a mask
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outdoors. Naturally, it's none other than Robert de Niro, who decided to
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prove to the world that he is suffering from an acute case of Trump derangement
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syndrome. I don't mean to scare you. No, no, wait,
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maybe I do mean to scare you. If Trump returns to the White House,
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you can kiss these freedoms goodbye that we all take for granted, and
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elections forget about it. That's over, that's done. If he gets in,
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I can tell you right now, he will never leave. He will
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never leave. You know that he will never leave. Here you go.
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If Trump wins later this year, it will be the end of democracy,
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the end of elections. Trump will be a dictator, you know, the
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type of tyrant that persecutes his political opponents on trumped up charges and tries to
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bankrupt them and put them in prison. Oh wait, that's the current guy.
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Denika de Giorgio agreed, saying that Democrats would be extremely concerned looking at
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the vision of huge Trump crowd support over the weekend. Well, you would
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think that Joe Biden's camp, if they were to look at this vision,
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they would be extremely concerned by this because they're probably thinking to themselves, Oh,
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it's over, Like he's lost all over his supporters. They're going to
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flip the switch somehow, but I think you'd be quite worried. But in
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the end, when we look at that case altogether, it was very convoluted.
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If you look at the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, he even said
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that he used a law that hasn't been used before just to get Trump's conviction,
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which is extraordinary. So realistically, Donald Trump didn't stand a chance from
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the very beginning, of course not but I mean the response of the crowd
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at the UFC. That's why they had to go after him and use legal
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contortions to try to throw Trump out of the race, because they know how
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popular he is. If Joe Biden's eighty one million Americans, if he's that
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popular, yeah, why are they going to such extreme lengths to try and
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remove Trump? And it seems Trump's conviction is having the desired effect, with
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Analyse Nielsen confirming Donald Trump is polling ahead of Joe Biden. Donald Trump is
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polling ahead of Joe Biden at the moment. Once he becomes president presumptive,
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if that's what happens or President elects, it's a completely different ballgame and no
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one's really going to know how to deal with this. And quite likely these
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were just awful. By the wayside. What impact do you think this will
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have on Trump's campaign to the White House? It doesn't to have heard him
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yet. There's nothing to stop Donald Trump running for president as a felon.
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He can run it from a jail cell if that happens. He can win
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from a jail cell if that were to happen. And if anything, it
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emboldens his followers because he's been saying I'm being persecuted and they're coming after me
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and your next Joe Manchin, Senator, thank you so much for joining us.
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As you know, President Biden is using the same authority that Trump attempted
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to use to shut off access to asylum for migrants who crossed the southern border
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illegally. You believe this is the right move for President Biden. Absolutely.
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I've been encouraging this since last October. The border is the most serious crisis
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that we face as far as I'm concerned. Right now, we have people
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coming in to our country that haven't been vetted. We don't know what their
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purpose is, and we know that there's a lot of illicit trade this coming
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also, So this is something that had to be done. It should have
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been done sooner, But I'm happy it's done now. I support the President
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for doing this, and if all those who have disagreements, whether it's not
27:08
enough or too much, then you should sit down in earnest and try to
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work through it. That's the problem with Washington. Nobody wants to work to
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find a common answer to a very common problem. The Trump campaign and the
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Republican National Committee are slamming the new executive action, saying the action taken today
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won't fix anything. Do they have a point? Is this more about scoring
27:30
political points than actually addressing the situation at the border. Well, it absolutely
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addresses it. Basically, it stops all illegal entries between the ports of entry.
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The ports of entry now will all be vetted. There won't be anyone
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catch and release, no more paroles from that standpoint. So we're stopping a
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lot of the things. So much more needs to be done. But you've
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got to stop this absolutely uncontrolled migration coming in anywhere. They want to just
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to go up to that and turn themselves in, they'll be turned away now
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they come to a port of entry. If we hit the maximum that we
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can't vet. Don't know who you are. That stops everything, SUTs down
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so I think it absolutely does help us get control of this border to an
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extent that at least we know who's coming and what the purpose, and if
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they have any criminal record behind them, we'd have known that before. This
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is long overdue, and I'm glad it happened. In March, Senator,
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I asked you what it would take for you to endorse President Biden. Let
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me play that brief exchange we had listen to this. What does President Biden
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need to do to publicly and formally win your endorsement. Well, we have
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an energy security Okay, we have to get the border security, the greatest
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threat we face right now. I've encouraged the President to do basically a national
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emergency. You have to have legal immigration, but you cannot allow immigration,
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illegal immigration taking over your border. He has to step forward on that and
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strongly. So is this the kind of strong action on the border that you
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said President Biden needed to do when we spoke back in March. Are you
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now ready, Senator, to make that endorsement. Let's just say that it
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helps tremendously. But we still have energy security. I'm fighting that every day
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to make sure that we have the energy in this country to be able to
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run our economy, defend ourselves, and help our allies. Also more things
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that we can go into. But the greatest concern that I'm having now is
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the dead of the nation. Thirty four point sixty six trillion dollars and no
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one's doing anything about this, and it's going to cause great havy. We
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have for the first time, it looks as if we will spend more on
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the interest on our debt than what it takes to defend our country. So
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it cannot be success. We're moving in the right direction. What else,
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What else will it take for you to endorse President Biden. Well, we're
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moving in the right direction. Let me just say this, this is a
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big step in the right direction. Let's just make sure that we have more
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of it. I Trump's criminal conviction, your friend and colleague, Republican Senator
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Susan Collins of Maine said this about the verdict that I'm quoting her now.
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The district attorney who campaigned on a I missed to prosecute Donald Trump brought these
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charges precisely because of who the defendant was, rather than because of any specified
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criminal conduct. Senator, do you agree with her that Trump was prosecuted because
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of who he is. Well, I guess you could say that Hunter Biden
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has been prosecuted because of who he is. I hear so much of this,
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and my main concern is the rule of law makes us different. Anywhere
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else in the world. People have different venues for correction. And if President
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Trump is he's been misjudged and misaligned. He trusts me. President Trump is
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not going to spend one day incarcerated. I can assure you He's going to
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be on the ballot. You have a chance to vote for or against him,
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and he has different venues. Only in America, only with the rule
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of law do you have a way through the process of our judicial system to
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correct the wrong that might have been done. So it has a long way
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to go. Everyone's jumping right now, misaligning this thing. I'm thankful for
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the rule of law we have. I want to make sure that we protect
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the judicial system and not to be allowed, not allow it to be weaponized.
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Both sides maybe want to weaponize this. It can't be done. I
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believe that Merrick Garland is trying to do his absolute best to be non partial
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on this. If that was the case, then how can you say well,
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it was against the Trumps, but as protecting the Bidens, I don't
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think so. I think on either side they can basically think because of who
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they are and their last names as why they might have been brought to this
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situation that they're in right today, Senator, as you know, President Biden
31:37
slammed Donald Trump as a quote convicted felon over at a fundraiser, telling donors
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his predecessor snapped his words snapped after losing the twenty twenty election. Is focusing
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on Trump's conviction the best way to defeat him? Absolutely not. I think
31:53
because he has venues, he might be as honerated, it might be alli
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pillot, and it might be thrown out. So why would we be jumping
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to conclusions? So I think that's the wrong. The bottom line is,
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let's these two men are going to be on the ballot. They're going to
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go to the final November fifth election, and the character of who you would
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want to be and setting in that seat is going to be determined at that
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time you make your decision. But using all of these other things, start
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talking about the problems the border. Is this going to fix the border?
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Absolutely not? Is it going to help control the border. Absolutely, can
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we do something? What's our job as a Senator and also as congress people.
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Shouldn't we be looking at the long game of how do we fix things?
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Are we just using everything as a prop for the next election. That's
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why I got so frustrated. I couldn't take it no more. I didn't
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want to be part of this process and the political parties continue to make you
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pick a side and drive us apart. I'm going to do everything in my
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power the six months i'm here and for the rest of my involvement in the
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politics in this great country is to bring the country together, the reasonable,
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responsible middle woo. They have to understand the power they have, start determining
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and demanding more from the people you send here. Open up the primary processes
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in your states to get better selection and better candidates involved. Senator Manchin,
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thanks so much for joining us. We of course will walk you back to
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continue this conversation down the road. So much is going on. Appreciate it
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very well, you will thank you. Good to be with you as well.
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Crooked Joe Biden, the worst president in the history of our country by
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far, has totally surrendered our southern border. His weakness and extremism have resulted
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in a border invasion like we have never seen before. Other countries have emptied
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out their prisons and sane asylums and mental institutions and sent us drug dealers,
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human traffickers, and terrorists. Millions of people have poured into our country.
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And now, after nearly four years of his failed week leadership, pathetic leadership,
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crooked, Joe Biden is pretending to finally do something about the border,
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but in fact it's all about show because he knows we have a debate coming
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up in three weeks. Today, I'm moving past republic instruction and using the
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executive authorities available to me as president to do what I can on my own
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to address the border. Frankly, I would have preferred to address this issue
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through bipartisan legislation, because that's the only way to actually get the kind of
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system we have now that's broken fixed. The truth is that Joe Biden's executive
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order won't stop the invasion. It's weak and it's pathetic. It will actually
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make the invasion worse. Today, I'm announcing actions to bar migrants who cross
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our southern border unlawfully from receiving asylum. Migrants will be restricted from receiving asylum
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at our southern border unless they seek it after entering through an established, lawful
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process, and those who seek come to the United States legally, for example,
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by making an appointment and coming to a port of entry, asylum will
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still be available to them, still available, But if an individual chooses not
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to use our legal path, if they choose to come without permission and against
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the law, they'll be restricted from receiving an asylum and staying in the United
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States. This action will help us gain control of our border restore order to
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the process. This ban will remain in place until the number of people trying
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to enter illegally is reduced to the level that our system can effectively manage.
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Will carry out this order consistent with all responsibilities under international law, every one
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of them. In addition to this action, we recently made important reforms in
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our asylum system, more efficient and more secure reforms. The goal is delivered
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decisions on asylum as quickly as possible, the quicker. The quicker decision means
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that a migrant is less likely to pay a criminal smuggler thousands of dollars are
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taken on a dangerous journey knowing that if in fact they move in the wrong
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direction, they returned around quickly. Two weeks ago, the Department of Justice
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stated started a new docket in the immigration courts to address cases where people recently
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cross the border to make can make a decision within six months rather than six
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years, because that's what happens now. Addition to the Department of Homeland Security
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has proposed new rules to allow federal law enforcement to more quickly remove asylumn seekers
36:17
that have criminal convictions and remove them from the United States. My administration has
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also recently launched new efforts to go after criminal networks that profit from smuggling migrants
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to our border and incentivize people to give tips to law enforce provide information that
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brings smugglers to justice. We're also sending additional federal prosecutors to hotspots along the
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border and prosecute individuals who break our immigration laws. Millions of people a year
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will continue to pour across our border and be released into our country, and
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we recently learned Biden secretly granting mass amnesty to hundreds of thousands of these illegal
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aliens, along with welfare, government benefits, work permits, and jobs.
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He's not doing that However, for our veterans, he's not doing that for
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our homeless. He's giving illegal aliens far more than our veterans get, far
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more than our homeless get. One other critical step that will be taking and
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that is made a huge difference, but continue to work closely with our Mexican
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neighbors instead of attacking Mexico, and it's worked. We build a strong partnership
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of trust between the Mexican President Lopez Obrador, and I'm going to do the
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same with the Mexican elected president who I spoke with yesterday. We've chosen to
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work together with Mexico as an equal partner, and the facts are clear due
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to the arrangements that I've reached with President Obador, when number of migrants coming
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and shared to our shared border unlawfully in recent months has dropped dramatically. But
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while these steps are important, to truly secure the border, we have to
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change our laws and Congress needs to provide the necessary funding to hire one thousand,
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five hundred more border security agents, one hundred more immigration judges to help
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tackle the backlog of cases more than two million of them, three hundred more
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asylum officers to make decisions less than six months instead of six years, which
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is what it takes now, and around one hundred more high tech detection machines
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to significantly increase the ability to screen and stop fentanyl being smuggled into the United
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States. These investments were one of the primary reasons that the Border Patrol Union
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endorsed the bipartisan deal in the first place. These investments are essential. They
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remain essential as far as I'm concerned. If you're not willing to spend the
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money to hire more border patrol agents, more asylum officers, more judges,
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more high tech machinery, you're just not serious about protecting our border. It's
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as simple as that. I believe that immigration has always been a lifeblood of
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America. We're constantly renewed by an infusion of people and new talent. A
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statue of liberty is not some relic of American history. It stands for who
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we are as in the United States. Many of the left are even pushing
39:17
for illegal aliens to vote in our elections, which is what this is all
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about. That's why they're allowing up to twenty million people since he took office.
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When I was president, we built over five hundred miles of border wall,
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stopped the flood of criminals, and we had the safest border in the
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history of our country. We need to secure our border once again. We
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need to secure our border once and for all. Crooked Joe, we'll never
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get the job done. He doesn't want to get the job done. It's
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just words and misinformation because he could have done it very easily. All he
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had to do is say close the border. That's the power of the presidency.
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But when I'm elected, it will be my top priority. So I
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will never demonize immigrants. I'll never refer to immigrants as but poisoning the blood
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of a country. And further, I'll never separate children from their families at
40:08
the border. I will not ban people from this country because of the religious
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beliefs. I will not use the US military to go in to the neighborhoods
40:15
all across the country to pull millions of people out of their homes and have
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away from their families, to put the tension camps and while waiting deportation,
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as my predecessor says he will do if he occupies his office again. My
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very first day as president, I introduced a comprehensive immigration reform plan to to
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fix our broken system, secure our border, provide a pathways for citizens,
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for dreamers, and a lot more. And I'm still fighting to get that
40:45
done. But we must face the simple truth. To protect America as a
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land that welcomes immigrants, we must first secure the border and secure it now.
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The simple truth is there is a worldwide migrant crisis, and if the
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United States doesn't secure our border, there's no limit to the number of people
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may try to come here, because there's no better place on the planet than
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the United States of America. For those that say the steps I've taken are
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too strict, I say to you that be patient, and good will of
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American people are gonna be wearing thin right now. Doing nothing is not an
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option. We have to act, must act consistent with both our law and
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our values. Our values Americans. We'll take these steps today not to walk
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away from who we are as Americans, to make sure we preserve who we
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are for future generations to come. Today I've spoken about what we need to
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do to secure the border, and the weeks ahead, and I mean the
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week said, I'll speak to how we can make our immigration system more fair
41:46
and more just. Let's fix the problem and stop fighting about it. I'm
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doing my part. We're doing our part. Congression Republicans should do their part,
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thank you very much. One day one I will seal the border,
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stop the invasion, and send Joe Biden's illegal aliens back home. They have
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to be sent back home because no country can sustain the damage that our country
42:10
is sustaining. All over the world, crime rates are going down because all
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over the world, not just South America, they're sending criminals into the United
42:20
States of America. They're taking their drug dealers, and they're people in jail,
42:25
lots of people in jail. They're taking their murderers, they're killers,
42:30
they're taking them all and they're sending them into the United States. And Venezuela
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crime is down, are staggering sixty seven percent because if you go to Caracas,
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if you go to different places, they're sending their criminals into the United
42:45
States. It's a horrible thing. And that's happening all over the world,
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many many places, many countries. We're not going to let it continue.
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We're going to get them out. We're going to bring our country back to
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safety. We're going to make America great again, greater than ever before.
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Thank you. Very much