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Terrorist Linked Illegal Aliens Released into the US plus Protecting Your Children takes a Single Act · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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  Speaker 1: Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with
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  Speaker 2: you and Senator there are a couple big issues we
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  Speaker 2: get to deal with today that are really important, including
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  Speaker 2: a shock that almost one hundred terror linked migrants were
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  Speaker 2: released into the United States of America in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: four a loan by the Biden administration.
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  Speaker 3: It really is a shocking story.
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  Speaker 4: Tulsea Gabbard revealed an eagle pass in Texas that the
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  Speaker 4: intelligence community had informed the Biden administration that of hundreds
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  Speaker 4: of terror linked illegal immigrants, that roughly one hundred of
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  Speaker 4: them were arrested in twenty twenty four, and that they
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  Speaker 4: released all but eight of them after they knew that
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  Speaker 4: they were linked to terrorist organizations. It's a shocking story.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to break it down and give you the details.
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  Speaker 4: We're also going to talk about the Take It Down Act.
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  Speaker 4: protecting teenage girls, teenage boys from revenge porn, from deep
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  Speaker 4: fakes online. And this week the First Lady of the
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  Speaker 4: the State of the Union praise the Senate for passing
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  Speaker 4: my Take It Down Act unanimously and called on the
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  Speaker 2: headline almost one hundred Terrace linked migrants released in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty four. The part that I think we really should
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  Speaker 2: hone in on is this wasn't an accident. It wasn't
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  Speaker 2: like a misappropriation of paperwork.
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  Speaker 1: This was done on purpose.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they knew, they had full knowledge. And look, don't
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  Speaker 3: take my word for it. Listen to Tulsa Gabbard and
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  Speaker 3: what she said this week down in Texas at to
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  Speaker 3: Eagle Pass. Give a listen.
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  Speaker 5: Pump has been in office. Really, what you're seeing here
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  Speaker 5: today and what you'll continue to see as a unified
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  Speaker 5: effort across President Trump's National security team, the Department of
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  Speaker 5: Homeland Security towards our mission, which is to ensure a safe, free,
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  Speaker 5: and prosperous society for Americans. As Director of National Intelligence.
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  Speaker 5: There are a number of areas where we are focused.
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  Speaker 5: The President talked about.
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  Speaker 1: In his speech.
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  Speaker 5: Over twenty one million people have come across our borders
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  Speaker 5: illegally under Joe Biden's administration. There are many of them
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  Speaker 5: that we don't know who they are. They have not
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  Speaker 5: been vetted, we don't know where they are.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you.
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  Speaker 5: One quick example of one of the problems that we
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  Speaker 5: are getting after from Central Asia. There were over four
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  Speaker 5: thousand people who came across our borders using an ISIS
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  Speaker 5: affiliated network. Our National counter Terrorism Center went through and
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  Speaker 5: identified those individuals.
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  Speaker 3: There were hundreds of them who.
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  Speaker 5: Were either known terrorists or associated with known terrorists. That
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  Speaker 5: information was provided to the Biden administration. You may remember
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  Speaker 5: in some of the news a little over one hundred
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  Speaker 5: of those people were arrested in twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 3: Of those who.
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  Speaker 5: Were arrested, only eight were either deported or remained in custody.
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  Speaker 1: Only eight.
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  Speaker 5: The rest of them were released back into our country.
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  Speaker 5: Where are they, what are they doing? What may they
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  Speaker 5: be plotting? This is just the beginning. There are many
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  Speaker 5: many areas that we need to stay very focused on,
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  Speaker 5: working with Department of Homeland Security, working with the FBI
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  Speaker 5: to ensure that we're keeping the American people safe. The
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  Speaker 5: Honor Terrorism Center is working on making sure that we
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  Speaker 5: have that single source for vetting so that we can
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  Speaker 5: figure out who is actually in our country and identify
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  Speaker 5: those who pose a threat and get them removed.
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  Speaker 3: The President's designation.
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  Speaker 5: Of the cartels as foreign terrorists organizations falls directly into this,
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  Speaker 5: especially as we're seeing some of the tactics that these
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  Speaker 5: cartels are using reflect some of the tactics that we've
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  Speaker 5: seen used by Islamus terras in countries that many of
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  Speaker 5: us have served in overseas.
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  Speaker 3: Our mission is very clear.
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  Speaker 5: Our objective is to keep the American people safe.
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  Speaker 3: I'm grateful to be.
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  Speaker 5: A part of this team that President Trump has assembled
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  Speaker 5: to accomplish that mission.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I love the focus.
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  Speaker 2: The Vice President was down there as well the team,
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  Speaker 2: and you compare that to the borders are who never
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  Speaker 2: decided to go to egle Pass, didn't want anything to
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  Speaker 2: do with it, and now we understand again more why
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  Speaker 2: because they knew they were doing all of the things
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  Speaker 2: that they were doing to put America's national security at risk.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's worth really focusing on the facts that
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  Speaker 4: Telsea Gabbard is now the Director of National Intelligence. What
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  Speaker 4: she said, she said from Central Asia, there were more
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  Speaker 4: than four thousand people who came across our borders using
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  Speaker 4: an ISIS affiliated network. So isis, you know, kind of
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  Speaker 4: bad guys, terrorists who've killed lots and lots of Americans.
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  Speaker 4: They're smuggling over four thousand people illegally into this country
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  Speaker 4: from Central Asia. By the way, Central Asia includes multiple
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  Speaker 4: Islamic countries like Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, where radical Islamic terrorism
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  Speaker 4: is a real threat. And Tulsi said, the National counter
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  Speaker 4: Terrorism Center went through and identified those over four thousand
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  Speaker 4: individuals and there were hundreds of them, hundreds of the
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  Speaker 4: word she used, who were either known terrorists or associated
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  Speaker 4: with known terrorists. And then she says, quote that information
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  Speaker 4: was provided to the Biden administration, So the Biden administration
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  Speaker 4: knew hundreds of either known terrorists or people associated with
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  Speaker 4: known terrorists were smuggled into America. Illegally by an ISIS
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  Speaker 4: affiliated network. And then she goes on to say, in
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty four, a little over one hundred of those
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  Speaker 4: terror leaked people were arrested, and then the shocking thing
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  Speaker 4: of the little more than one hundred, only eight were
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  Speaker 4: either deported or remained in custody.
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  Speaker 3: Only eight.
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  Speaker 4: Quote the rest of them were released back into our country.
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  Speaker 4: So this is not illegal aliens crossing the border that
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  Speaker 4: get apprehended at they let them go, but they don't
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  Speaker 4: know their terrorists. These are people they know are either
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  Speaker 4: themselves known terrorists or associated with known terrorists. They also
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  Speaker 4: know that they were smuggled illegally into this country by
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  Speaker 4: an ISIS affiliated network, and they were arrested again. And
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  Speaker 4: yet over ninety of them, nearly one hundred, the Biden
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  Speaker 4: administration released into America into your community, into my community
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  Speaker 4: in a single year.
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  Speaker 3: This isn't twenty twenty four. That is stunning.
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  Speaker 4: And I got to tell you, bet, I've never heard
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  Speaker 4: a single Democrat give any justification for what is just idiocy.
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  Speaker 4: Let's release terror linked illegal immigrants into America.
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  Speaker 3: What possibly could go wrong with that?
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  Speaker 2: When you look at the and you sometimes it's just
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  Speaker 2: people are stupid, is it?
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  Speaker 1: But it also could be more I could be more
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  Speaker 1: sinister than that, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: I look at this, I'm like they knew it, did
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  Speaker 2: They just not want to admit that the open border
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  Speaker 2: would allow for so many bad actors to come across,
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  Speaker 2: with many that may just be coming across right for
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  Speaker 2: a better life a job if you put it in
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  Speaker 2: the best like possible center. And so they knew that
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  Speaker 2: if they admitted they caught these people and then they
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  Speaker 2: didn't release them, and they actually prosecuted them or sent
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  Speaker 2: them back to their country, there's a lot of options
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  Speaker 2: here that was going to sign a huge light on
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  Speaker 2: the problem. So therefore, hey, we can't admit it's happening.
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  Speaker 2: So we're just gonna go with this anarchy and in
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  Speaker 2: Sandy till the end.
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  Speaker 3: Look, Bet, I really don't know.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I had my very first boss at a phrase he
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  Speaker 4: used to say. He said, never attribute to incompetence and
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  Speaker 4: never attribute to malice. What can be explained with incompetence,
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  Speaker 4: And look, I think there's a lot of wisdom to
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  Speaker 4: that that a lot of times people are just they
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  Speaker 4: just do dumb things. That being said, Listen, I do
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  Speaker 4: I believe the Biden administration wants terrorists to attack America. No,
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  Speaker 4: but then why the hell would you release these people?
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  Speaker 4: And I guess the only plausible explanation I can come
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  Speaker 4: up with is there such radicals on open borders they're
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  Speaker 4: so committed to their open bodor because they want millions
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  Speaker 4: and millions of illegal immigrants, because they they view them
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  Speaker 4: as future Democrat voters, that they're just deportation was off
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  Speaker 4: the table. They're not in that business. They don't do it.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. Listen, this is related to a story
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  Speaker 4: we covered in a pod a couple weeks ago. We're
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  Speaker 4: in Massachusetts right now. They're taking violent child abusers, child molesters,
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  Speaker 4: people who are raping children, who are illegal aliens, and
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  Speaker 4: even with violent child rapists, the Massachusetts authorities are releasing
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  Speaker 4: them rather than give them over to Ice to be deported. Now, look,
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  Speaker 4: reasonable people, you could have an argument about what should
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  Speaker 4: be the level of illegal immigration.
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  Speaker 3: You could. There are all sorts of things you'd have
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  Speaker 3: reasonable disagreements on.
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  Speaker 4: But I mean, Ben explained to me why someone says,
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  Speaker 4: you know what we need more of? We need more
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  Speaker 4: child rapists in our community. Let's let these go. Like
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  Speaker 4: I my brain cannot wrap itself around those repeated actions.
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  Speaker 4: And yet that's what's happening. This is the same sort
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  Speaker 4: of thing you apprehend someone who's a known terrorist who
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  Speaker 4: was smuggled into America by ISIS, and you say, oh,
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  Speaker 4: let's let them go like like I, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: The poll numbers that came out from the present speech
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  Speaker 2: the other night were truly incredible. Seventy six percent approved
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  Speaker 2: of Trump's address to Congress. That is a massive win
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  Speaker 2: for the president. You look at some of the other
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  Speaker 2: ones and poll numbers. Not only that, ninety one percent
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  Speaker 2: said Trump spent time on issues they cared about.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is a home run.
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  Speaker 2: Seventy one percent said the speech was quote inspiring, and
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  Speaker 2: sixty two percent said it was unifying. And they said
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  Speaker 2: that this speech sixty eight percent, so they felt hopeful
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  Speaker 2: fifty four percent, so they felt proud of the country
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  Speaker 2: from the speech.
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  Speaker 1: And when you look at these numbers, even on the.
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  Speaker 2: Issue of inflation, where Democrats leaned in heavy over the
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  Speaker 2: last few weeks to try to say everything that's you know,
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  Speaker 2: eggs and everything else are the problem of Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: The American people aren't buying that either. When they were
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  Speaker 2: asked for the president a clear plan to battle inflation,
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  Speaker 2: sixty eight percent said yes to that as well. And
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  Speaker 2: then on the issue of immigration at the border, the
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  Speaker 2: people watched in seventy seven percent said they were in
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  Speaker 2: favor of Donald Trump's plan on immigration at the border.
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  Speaker 2: When you see this right and you look at what
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  Speaker 2: the President's saying, and then all those that are working
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  Speaker 2: towards this, You've got the Vice President, You've got Tolca,
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  Speaker 2: you've got the Secretary of State. Everyone seems to be
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  Speaker 2: in lockstep on this issue of the border. Is that
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  Speaker 2: the reason why you think the President's winning so much
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  Speaker 2: right now on securing this border, because he's explaining it
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  Speaker 2: the way we are right now as well.
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  Speaker 4: Because he is not absolutely frigging nuts. Yes, I think
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  Speaker 4: the Democrat Party has gone insane. Releasing murderers and rapists
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  Speaker 4: and child molesters to America is a really bad idea,
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  Speaker 4: and it turns out it's.
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  Speaker 3: A really unpopular idea.
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  Speaker 4: Releasing terrorists into America is a really bad idea, and
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  Speaker 4: it turns out it's a really unpopular idea. Look, you
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  Speaker 4: and I the we covered did a pod the Night
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  Speaker 4: of the State of the Union, UH and we talked
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  Speaker 4: a lot about how the Democrats, for the first time ever,
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  Speaker 4: didn't applaud for the president of the United States, didn't
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  Speaker 4: stand for the President of the United States, didn't applaud
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  Speaker 4: and anything. I'll tell you Actually, yesterday the Senate, Jim
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  Speaker 4: I had a conversation with a Senate Democrat. I'll keep
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  Speaker 4: him anonymous, but he was a Senate Democrat, one of
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  Speaker 4: my colleagues, and.
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  Speaker 3: He made a comment.
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  Speaker 4: He said something about he thought we were just living
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  Speaker 4: in a surreal world. And I said, look, I got
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  Speaker 4: to say, I was shocked that you guys didn't applaud
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  Speaker 4: or stand for the president at all. And he and
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  Speaker 4: he was like, well, you got to understand, we just
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  Speaker 4: think he's destroying the Constitution. And I said, look, I
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  Speaker 4: stood and applauded every year for Barack Obama, I stood
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  Speaker 4: and applauded every year for Joe Biden. And I disagreed
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  Speaker 4: with almost everything they were doing, but I respect the
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  Speaker 4: office and I respect the American people. And he just
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  Speaker 4: kind of shrugged and said, we're living in different universes
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  Speaker 4: and we're our bases are fundamentally different. You look at
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  Speaker 4: Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
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  Speaker 2: He also announced a policy to penalize foreign countries that
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  Speaker 2: allow the transit of illegal immigrants and is pressuring many
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  Speaker 2: countries that refuse to accept to the return of their
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  Speaker 2: migrants as well. This could also have a big impact
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  Speaker 2: on this country. I want to get your thoughts on that.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Look, this administration is securing the border. They're doing it
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  Speaker 4: right now, and they are going to deport illegal aliens.
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  Speaker 4: They are going to send out of the country, especially
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  Speaker 4: the violent criminal illegal aliens, the murderers, the rapists, theild molesters,
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  Speaker 4: the gangbangers, and the countries that don't take it, they're
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  Speaker 4: they're going to make them take it. And that's what
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  Speaker 4: a strong president who's actually defending this country does.
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  Speaker 2: All right, I want to move on to this other
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  Speaker 2: really important issue, and I want to say, sincerely, Senator,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for leading on the Take It Down Act.
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  Speaker 2: It is going to have a huge impact in this
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  Speaker 2: country at protecting people against deep fake porn and people
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  Speaker 2: that are trying to harm them, especially young girls. You've
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  Speaker 2: highlighted it and explained it, and the First Lady is
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  Speaker 2: now all in on this issue as well. And you
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  Speaker 2: guys had a round table on Capitol Hill talk a
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  Speaker 2: little bit about this.
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, So the First Lady came this week to
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  Speaker 4: Capitol Hill and this is the first legislative issue she's
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  Speaker 4: gotten involved in this term, and she's leaned in hard
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  Speaker 4: in support of my Take It Down legislation. And so
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  Speaker 4: we did a roundtable that she came in diticipated in,
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  Speaker 4: and we had several of the victims who had been
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  Speaker 4: targeted share their stories and it was really powerful and
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  Speaker 4: her leadership will really have a powerful effect here. I
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  Speaker 4: want you to listen. These are my opening remarks at
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  Speaker 4: the roundtable.
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  Speaker 3: Give a listen.
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  Speaker 4: Start by thanking the First Lady for joining us today,
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  Speaker 4: and thank you for your support of this incredibly important
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  Speaker 4: legislation to Take It Down Act, which has already passed
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  Speaker 4: the Senate unanimously, and I am hopeful that the House
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  Speaker 4: will soon take it up and pass it and put
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  Speaker 4: it on the President's desk to be signed into law
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  Speaker 4: to protect young women and young boys and all of those.
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  Speaker 3: Who are being victimized across the country.
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  Speaker 4: I also want to thank our brave victims and victim
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  Speaker 4: advocates who are here, Aliston, Barry, Francesca Mani, Brandon Guffy,
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  Speaker 4: and Breezeloo.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for being here.
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  Speaker 4: Each of you have endured the unspeakable, and your courage
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  Speaker 4: standing up and speaking for others is really remarkable. I
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  Speaker 4: also want to thank Stephan Turkheimer with RAIN for your
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  Speaker 4: advocacy and support on.
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  Speaker 3: This issue as well.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you for your leadership, and of course I want
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  Speaker 4: to thank Senator Klobuchar, who's the lead Democrat sponsor in
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: the Senate, and Representative Salazar and Representative Dean who are
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: the lead sponsors in the House, who've worked alongside in
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: this important bipartisan legislation. If you're a victim of revenge
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: porn or AI generated explicit imagery, your life changes forever.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: Most likely you've been targeted by someone you know, and
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: you're likely struggling to have that material removed from the Internet. Disturbingly,
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: many of these victims are teenagers at American high schools
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: who are facing a surge in AI generated sexual images.
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  Speaker 4: Hundreds of teens, often targeted by their own classmates, are
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: enduring senseless psychological harm knowing that these fake images exist
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: and they're still out there, and in many case there's
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: no recourse for these teenage victims. But this issue extends
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: beyond high school. There are thousands of cases where predators
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: have used non consensual intimate images to extort victims, both
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: sexually and financially, and the results can be even more
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: traumatic than financial loss, as we'll here today. In dozens
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: of instances, parents and siblings have suffered unbearable pain having
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: lost their child, or their brother or their sister to
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: suicide because the victim felt there was no way out.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: From sextorship outside of high school.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: Many adults are also dealing with the very real and
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: dire consequences of having their sexually explicit images shared online
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: without their consent. I have heard from victims of sexual abuse,
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: of rape, of human trafficking who strongly support the Take
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: It Down Act because they desperately want some of the
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: most traumatic moments of their lives taken off the Internet.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: The Take It Down Act empowers victims across the entire
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: United States. It makes it a felony for these deviants
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: to publish any non consensual intimate images, including fake lifelike.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: Pornographic images of real people.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: Just as importantly, our bipartisan bill requires big tech to
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: have a notice and takedown propit so that every victimized American,
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: not just the rich and famous, but everyone has a
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: right to get these disturbing images taken offline immediately. We
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: are today one step closer to making this dream of reality.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: Just three weeks ago, the Senate unanimously passed to Take
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: It Down Act. Now it goes to my House, colleagues,
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: and I have every assurance and confidence that the House
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: will take it, take this up, pass it, and put
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: it on the President's desk so that we can protect
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: the victims of these predators. And we're very excited to
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: be joined today by the First Lady of the United States,
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: Milania Trump. Missus Trump has long been a champion for
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: protecting our nation's children with her be best initiative, and
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: I can think of no more important issue for our
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: First Lady to lean on than protecting children online. Your
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: success will mean our children's success and healing for thousands
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: of victims.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's incredible this legislation, and it's also awesome
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: to see the First Lady coming to the forefront on
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: this issue and saying I want to champion this as well.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Look, it was tremendously important. She reached out, she wanted
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: to do this, she actively participated in the roundtable, and
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: here I want to play a moment of what she
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: had to say at the round table. Here's the first Lady,
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: Milennia Trump.
• 22:33
  Speaker 8: I was hardened to learn that Senator Bruce and Senator
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  Speaker 8: Toobechi united to poritize these from AMENTA.
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  Speaker 3: Then I must the lead.
• 22:42
  Speaker 8: However, I expected to see more Democrats leaders in US
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: to add as the serious issue. Surely, as adult, you've
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  Speaker 8: fize Americans chisi ahead of farms far. I urged Congress
• 23:02
  Speaker 8: to to prioritize the passage of the paying down EQUIL.
• 23:07
  Speaker 8: This limitation desential for addressing the growing concerns related to
• 23:13
  Speaker 8: online safety, protecting individual routs, and promoting a healthier digital environment.
• 23:22
  Speaker 8: By advocating Field, Congress and take.
• 23:26
  Speaker 9: An important step towards ensuring.
• 23:28
  Speaker 8: Accountability and postling responsibly online delilation to take it down.
• 23:35
  Speaker 8: Andy represents power from step to justice.
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: Healing and unity.
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  Speaker 2: The first lady there, and I do love that she
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: was honest. She's like, how are there not more Democrats
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: with this?
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: Well, and look it's the answer is the anger and
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: rage we saw at the State of the Union. They're
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: just filled with anger in rage. But I will say
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: the fact that the first Lady got involved so last
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: year we passed the Take It Down Act out of
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: the Senate. We got it passed out of the Senate
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: and went to the House, and unfortunately the House did
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: not take it up and pass it. Now, the House
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: tried to, and they actually had it attached to the
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: continuing Resolution at the end of the year, and then
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: it dropped out at the end of the day. And
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: so here's how this happens. When the First Lady wanted
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: to come, she came, and we invited multiple victims.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: To tell their stories and it was very powerful.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: But we also invited the Speaker of the House and
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: the majority leader in the House, and so both Speaker
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: Johnson and Leader Scalise came, and then both Mike and
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: Steve are good friends. But look, what are the challenges
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: of getting any legislation to move in either body is
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: getting leadership to prioritize it. There are lots of priorities,
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: There are lots of people pulling in all sorts of
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: different directions, and so you're always battling to say, Okay,
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: this should be high enough up on the priority list
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: to move. And the fact that the First Lady leaned
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: in now makes it a certainty. Both the Speaker and
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: and and the majority leader committed the House will take
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: it up and they will pass it. And I think
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: they're going to do so quickly. And Elliston Berry, So
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: Elliston was there, and and she is She's from Texas.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: She is a fifteen year old girl. And what happened
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: to her She's from Aledo, Texas, up in North Texas.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: And what happened to her is is is she woke
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: up one morning and she was in ninth grade, and
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: she was getting all these texts and calls from her friends.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: And it turns out a classmate of hers, a boy
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: in her class, took a perfectly innocent picture of her
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: from social media and used an app, an ai app,
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: to create a deep fake that that turned her picture
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: into naked pictures. Now it wasn't real, but anyone looking
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: at it would think it was real. It appeared to
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: be real. And then this, this, this, this ninth grader
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: emailed it, or not emailed it, but sent it on
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: snapchat to to all of her classmates. And and so
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: she woke up, you know, just in tears because all
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: of her classmates. I mean, look, remember how hard freshman
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: year is. It's hard to be a teenager. And and
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: the nightmare. You're a teenage girl and suddenly all your
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: friends think they're looking at naked pictures of you, and
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: and and there was nothing she could do about it.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: The boy they found out who did it, and and.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: And he he did not get in significant trouble, and
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: and and and she was frustrated out of her mind
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: that now it's it's kind of a cool story. How
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: the take it Down legislation happened, which is she she's
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: a textan, she's a constituent. And so her mother called
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: my office and described what had happened to her to
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: her daughter and said, look, can y'all help help us
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: with this? And and my team brought it to my attention,
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: and I said, look, this is horrible. Let's do something
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: about it. And so Elliston was was actually the inspiration
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: for this legislation because I heard what happened to her,
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: and I said, this isn't right. And so we drafted
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: the bill, and we invited Elliston and her mom, Anna
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: to come up to DC and they were at the
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: press conference where we introduced the bill, and Bennett was striking.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: We were meeting in my office before the press conference,
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: and I was talking this the first time I'd met
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: them in person, and I was talking and I asked
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: in the middle of the conversation, I said, okay, so
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: what happened to the pictures? And they both looked at
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: me in enormous frustration, and they said they're still up.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: It had been nine months since this had happened, and
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: Elliston's mom said she had called Snapchat repeatedly, she'd emailed them,
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: and she just got the stiff arm. She said it
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: was they were just stonewalling. They would get no response whatsoever.
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: And so I turned to my staff and I said,
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: I want you to get the CEO of Snapchat on
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: the phone today and I said, I want this garbage
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: down today. Within two hours, they pulled them down.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Incredible.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: Now, look, it's maddening, but it shouldn't take a sitting
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: US senator making a phone call to the CEO to
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: get it down. The victims ought to have the right
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: to get it down. So what we wrote into the
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: Take It Down Act is Number One, we make it
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: a felony to post non consensual intimate images, either real pictures.
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: Let's say you have and real pictures can come from
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: a number of places. They can come from. Number one
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: people who are in a romantic relationship and they take
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: a picture, they take a video, and then they have
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: a breakup and somebody's pissed and decide to post it
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: to the world. And that's a grotesque violation of privacy.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: You don't have a right to do that to somebody else.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: Or they can come from deep fakes, and we're seeing
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: the numbers. The numbers have increased three thousand percent of
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: deep fakes that are being put out. They're real pictures,
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: but they're real people, but fake either explicit pictures or
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: in some cases explicit videos that appear to be sexual
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: videos and they're generated by AI, but nobody watching can tell.
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: And this is exploding. And one of the reasons you
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: need the legislation is a number of states of past
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: laws criminalizing revenge porn, but the laws often don't cover
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: deep fakes, that they only cover real pictures, and so
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: deep fakes fall into a hole in the law.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: And I'll tell you, Ben, there's another.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: Instance where this happens, which is kids are subject to
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: human trafficking and are sexually abused and violated, and you
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: have the predators will put those images out online. And
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: the second component of this bill is a requirement that
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: any tech platform take down these images or these videos
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: once they're notified by the victim, a legal requirement that
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: once you're notified, you got forty eight hours to take
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: it down or else they face serious penalties. And that
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: the number of victims I've heard who have been so
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: frustrated getting big tech to act. In many ways, that's
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: the most important part of this bill is getting this
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: garbage taking down and creating a.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: Legal right for any victim to remove the content.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: One of the things that I also love seeing now,
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: and I want you to expand on this just for
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: a moment, was the fact that when you guys had
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: this roundtable, you mentioned Speaker Johnson was there. How important
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: is it to get legislation done that Republicans and the
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: senat are working with the Republicans in the House because
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: this is that type of I call it harmony that
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: I know makes a huge difference in getting an idea
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: to become a reality.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: Oh look, it's very important, and personal relationships make a difference.
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: I mean, I had dinner with Steve Scalise last week.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: Steve is a good friend. Mike Johnson is a good friend.
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: Mike and I have had dinner multiple times. We spent
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: a lot of time together. And that's that's how you
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: move legislation is through personal relationships, through strategizing, through working together.
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: And so when the first lady said she was coming,
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: I reached out and invited both of them, and invited
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: Brett Guthrie, who is the committee chairman of the Energy
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: and Commerce Committee, which is the committee that has jurisdiction
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: over this. It's the equivalent of the Senate Commerce Committee
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: that I'm the chairman of. And Brett's a friend as well.
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: He and I have had dinner. I mean a lot
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: of what if you want to actually move things through Congress,
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: the personal relationships really matter. And I got to say
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: I was really excited because at the State of the
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: Union address, Elliston Barry was sitting right next to Milania Trump,
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: she was her guest, was right there in the box
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: and actually President Trump explicitly called on Congress to pass
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: the Take It Down Act. I want you to listen.
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: This is the President at the State of the Union
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: calling on Congress to act.
• 31:54
  Speaker 7: And Elliston Berry, who became a victim of an illicit
• 31:58
  Speaker 7: deep fake image produced by a peer With Elliston's help,
• 32:05
  Speaker 7: the Senate just passed the Take It Down Act.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: And this is so important.
• 32:11
  Speaker 7: Thank you very much, John, John Thune, thank you, stand up, John,
• 32:15
  Speaker 7: Thank you John.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Thank you all very much.
• 32:28
  Speaker 7: Thank you, and thank you to John Thune and the Senate.
• 32:34
  Speaker 7: Great job to criminalize the publication of such images online.
• 32:39
  Speaker 7: This is a terrible, terrible thing, and once it passes
• 32:43
  Speaker 7: the House, I look forward to signing that bill into law.
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 32:48
  Speaker 7: And I'm going to use that bill for myself too,
• 32:50
  Speaker 7: if you don't mind, because nobody gets treated worse than
• 32:53
  Speaker 7: I do online, nobody. That's great. Thank you very much
• 32:58
  Speaker 7: to the Senate. Thank you.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, I love how they're just enthusiasm, there's excitement, Yeah,
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: there's momentum.
• 33:07
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: And it makes the chances. I think it's a certainty.
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: Now the House will take it up. As I said,
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: the Speaker and the Majority Leader both committed to doing
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: that and doing so quickly. And the President and First
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: Lady Engaging just raises it on the priority list. So
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: that's really good. Elliston. Was there another teenage girl, Francesca Mani,
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: who's from New Jersey. She's the same age, fifteen. She
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: had the same month this happened to Elliston, in Texas.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: The identical thing happened to Francesca in New Jersey. They
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: had the exact same experience. And both Elliston and Francesca
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: I've had testify at a field hearing I did on
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: the Take It Down Act that I held in Dallas,
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: and they both testified there. And these are two young
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: ladies who were really, really effective. Francesca was featured in
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: sixty Minutes. She's really powerful. Ellison and I did Good
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: Morning America together and she told her story there. I
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: kind of tell you she's so so articulate that the
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: Good Morning America host we're laughing and saying that Ellison
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: was coming for their jobs, and I think that's right
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: here here listen to listen to Ellison telling a little
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: bit of her story in her own voice.
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: I'm Ellison Barry. I'm fifteen years old. I'm from Fort Worth, Texas.
• 34:20
  Speaker 6: I was a survivor of AID fakes. A classmate of
• 34:23
  Speaker 6: mine targeted me and eight other of my friends and
• 34:27
  Speaker 6: put an innocent picture of Instagram through an AI ending
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: app that stripped our clothing off. And since you round
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: my whole school, I was able to get in touch
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: with Ted Cruz's office and we were able to write
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: up the Take It Down Act, which protects America's children
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: from these heinous acts. Thankfully, the First Lady's office was
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: able to reach out. And it's really just been such
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: an amazing experience knowing that she has the heart for
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: my situation and that she cares, and that the overall
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: support behind this act in this situation is so amazing
• 34:59
  Speaker 6: and were protecting the future generation.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: It's sad that this story has to even be a story,
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: but what an incredible young lady at fifteen to be
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: this articulate and to be able to understand that she
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: can help so many others and to contact your office,
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: and that you were able to help her and so
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: many others.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: This way is just truly incredible.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: It is really powerful.
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: And I'll tell you we had multiple victims testify and
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: sometimes the consequences of this are even worse. And so
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: I want you to give a listen to the testimony
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: of Brandon Guffy at the Roundtable to describing what happened
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: with his son. Although the vast majority of the targets
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: of this abuse are women and young girls, young boys
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: can be targeted as well, and the FBI has warned
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: that there's a growing threat of sextortion, deliberately targeting miners online,
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: where evil people use either real or fake explicit images
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: to extort their victims, both sexually and financially, and in
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: some instances the results can be even.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: More devastating and catastrophic.
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: And that was the tragic situation that that South Carolina
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: State Representative Branded Guffey and his family experienced in twenty
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: twenty two. Representative Guffey, would you please share what happened
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: with your son, Thank.
• 36:27
  Speaker 9: You, Senator Cruz. July twenty seventh, twenty twenty two, I
• 36:33
  Speaker 9: lost my oldest son, Gavin Guffy, to suicide. We quickly
• 36:38
  Speaker 9: found out that he was being extorted online, that someone
• 36:42
  Speaker 9: pretending to be a young female at another college requested
• 36:48
  Speaker 9: images to be shared back and forth, and as soon
• 36:50
  Speaker 9: as he shared those images, he took his life. It
• 36:54
  Speaker 9: was an hour and forty minutes from the time that
• 36:57
  Speaker 9: he was contacted until the time that he took his life.
• 37:00
  Speaker 9: At that time, I had never heard of the crime
• 37:04
  Speaker 9: of sextortion. I was always a more liberty minded politician,
• 37:13
  Speaker 9: even though I hate to say that word, and you know,
• 37:17
  Speaker 9: I wanted freedom as much as possible, but as I
• 37:20
  Speaker 9: started looking into this. I started to see that big
• 37:23
  Speaker 9: tech operates, and they are the equivalent of big tobacco,
• 37:27
  Speaker 9: of this of today's generation. The account that targeted my son,
• 37:32
  Speaker 9: that caused him to take his life, was taken down
• 37:35
  Speaker 9: online once Homeland Security reached out. However, they left the
• 37:40
  Speaker 9: additional accounts up. If I send a friend request, I
• 37:45
  Speaker 9: can choose remove this account and any other accounts associated.
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: Yet they left these.
• 37:50
  Speaker 9: Other accounts up, and those other accounts began to extort
• 37:53
  Speaker 9: my fourteen year old cousin, my sixteen year old son
• 37:57
  Speaker 9: who had just lost his brother, and myself as well,
• 38:01
  Speaker 9: going as far as sending a message saying, did I
• 38:03
  Speaker 9: tell you that your son begged for his life? From
• 38:07
  Speaker 9: that day forward, I've made it my life's mission. Politics
• 38:12
  Speaker 9: are not to fight to protect children online. Since December
• 38:18
  Speaker 9: of twenty twenty two, whenever I took office, within four months,
• 38:23
  Speaker 9: we were able to pass Gavin's Law in South Carolina,
• 38:26
  Speaker 9: which criminalized digital sextortion. And the first person that we
• 38:31
  Speaker 9: were able to convict under Gavin's Law was actually under
• 38:35
  Speaker 9: an AI photograph. I have helped thousands of children since then.
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  Speaker 9: Matter of fact, I've dealt with three within the past
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  Speaker 9: forty eight hours, the families that are reaching out that
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  Speaker 9: are being extorted in these situations. I've worked with groups
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  Speaker 9: such as in Cozy and Nick Meck. Here on the Hill,
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  Speaker 9: I have showed up with parents and unfortunately, the amount
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  Speaker 9: of parents that are losing children are growing daily. Since
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  Speaker 9: my son took his life, there's been forty other teens
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  Speaker 9: that are public about this. I can tell you there's
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  Speaker 9: more than a dozen that I know of that just
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  Speaker 9: do not feel comfortable share in their stories. But I'm
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  Speaker 9: witnessing teens constantly take their life and as you said,
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  Speaker 9: Senator Cruz, trying to get an image down. Now, granted,
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  Speaker 9: I'm just a state representative, but I have a little
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  Speaker 9: bit more pull than the average citizen, and I'm able
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  Speaker 9: to get some of these taken down occasionally, but that's
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  Speaker 9: generally not the case. And with something such as take
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  Speaker 9: it Down, it would allow families to be able to
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  Speaker 9: have those images taken down and to have the voice
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  Speaker 9: that my son did not have. There was no recourse
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  Speaker 9: of being able to know to be able to get
• 39:52
  Speaker 9: these images down, and in his mind, no one had
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  Speaker 9: his back, and this wasn't talked about. So since then
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  Speaker 9: it's been my mission to speak up, scream it from
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  Speaker 9: the mountaintops on how we have to hold big tech
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  Speaker 9: accountable and take it down. Does that? So for everyone involved,
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  Speaker 9: I really thank you for your involvement and urge for
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  Speaker 9: passage within the House.
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  Speaker 1: Sentta you hear that part of the story, and it's heartbreaking.
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  Speaker 2: It's also incredible to listen to a father making its
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  Speaker 2: life's work to help others.
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  Speaker 3: Afterwards, you know what a friggin nightmare. You and I
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  Speaker 3: are both dads. I mean, that's it's terrifying.
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  Speaker 4: And and you know young people will anyone, but especially
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  Speaker 4: teenagers are are targeted and victimized by this, and and
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  Speaker 4: and that's why the bill bill is really important and
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  Speaker 4: it's it's a it's a huge problem. So listen, I'm
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  Speaker 4: grateful to the first Lady, and I'm grateful to the
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  Speaker 4: President for for for leading on this, and we're going
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  Speaker 4: to get it done. And I'll tell you I told
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: I told Brandon, I told Elliston and and and Francisca
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: and and all of the victim advocates there that that uh,
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: they're going to be in the Oval Office for the
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  Speaker 4: bill signing. The President's going to sign the bill, and
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  Speaker 4: each one of them is going to get a signing
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  Speaker 4: pen that they're going to get to take home. And
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  Speaker 4: then that's you know, that's really who we're fighting for,
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  Speaker 4: are the victims who are targeted here.
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